Religion and Good Intentions: Embarrassed by Jesus
BY: KATHY VESTAL -- Are we following the Church’s teachings more closely than we follow Jesus’ teachings...
From the Heart…Angel Unaware
I was heading into the bathroom at my niece’s volleyball game yesterday when a kind-eyed white-haired gentleman stopped me. “Would you check on my granddaughter?” he asked me. “She’s been in there a long time...
American Christianity is at War Against Itself
As the national political climate becomes increasingly more polarized and as religion increasingly identifies itself in political terms, we are seeing a widening divide in Christianity itself, one for which a...
Change? Who? Me?
Photo: David Reese
I love grammar. I preach grammar. I grieve when I see the public schools largely ignoring grammar. How can something so important be ignored? How will the younger generations ever...
Where Is God When I'm Hurting?
She read me my first Junie B. Jones book during one of the many lunch breaks she and Nicki spent in my office that semester. Although at 45 I might have been a little old for Junie B., Beverly’s bubbly excite...
God Did Not Write the Bible…
. . . and that doesn’t hurt its holiness or its validity!
When I was a child my Sunday School teachers used to say that God whispered the words of the Bible, and someone wrote them down. There is some level o...
I Went to Gay Pride
OK, so I am drawn to what is controversial. I want to be there, to see for myself, to make my own judgments. If an event divides decent people into sides that condemn each other, I want to understand bo...