Losing Faith: Life's Questions
There are both honest reasons and dishonest reasons for young people giving up on God, and there are remedies for both.
The most common honest reason cited for losing faith is that it becomes impossible to be...
Faith in a Time of Cholera
The litany of horrors somehow won't end: an earthquake kills 230, 000; 80 percent of people already living on less than $2 a day; cholera spreading with help from a hurricane and killing thousands so far. The...
Are Evangelicals Fixated on Homosexuality?
Sigmund Freud would have something to say about the ways in which we Evangelicals seem to be fixated on homosexuality. That fixation became abundantly clear to me a few years back when I was doing radio interv...
Will 'Love Wins' Win? We're Early in the First Inning …
Because of my own experience as a writer, I've been anticipating the baptism in hot water (or worse) that Rob Bell was about to experience with the publication Love Wins. And because of the old saying that ...
Remember the Widow
Most of us concentrate our ministries on reaching young people with the Gospel. However, sociological studies make it clear that, in the churches of America, the elderly are the most neglected, in spite of...
A Prayer for Japan
It is too soon for meaning-making with the ongoing crisis in Japan. There will be time later to determine its ramifications for the world economy, for the future of the much-vaunted "nuclear renaissance." Bu...
"What a Saviour" vs. "What a Preacher"
When I was in Seminary, I took a course in homiletics. During that semester, each of the students was required to preach a sermon to the rest of the class. When it was my turn, I was ready! My points were cl...
Give to Uncle Sam What Is Uncle Sams: Tax Season War Resistance
Image Courtesy of Paul Soupiset Imagine what would happen if a massive popular movement of ordinary Americans decided to voice their concern about military spending – by withholding $10.40 from their ...
Stone Throwing at a Glass House
As the news of the financial woes of the Crystal Cathedral is heralded across the country and around the world, a host of critical voices have been raised, at times condemning the cost of building the Crystal...
Does it Pay to Pray for Healing?
A widowed mother of six dies of breast cancer. In the months preceding her death, the members of her church held weekly prayer meetings, begging God to heal her. Twice, all night prayer vigils were held on ...