by Brent McDougal | Dec 14, 2007 | Opinion
John Mayer’s song called “Waiting for the World to Change” has been my head as I think about Christmas. Mayer writes compelling lyrics about how we often feel like we don’t have the power to change our world. “Now we see everything...
by Brent McDougal | Aug 28, 2007 | Opinion
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the toughest of them all when it comes to using nuclear weapons against Osama bin Laden and terrorists in radical states such as Iran and Afghanistan? And by the way, while you’re pondering that, mirror, mirror, what...
by Brent McDougal | Jul 12, 2007 | Opinion
In the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau walked away from his everyday life in Concord, Mass., in exchange for an intentional, uncomplicated life. “I went to the woods,” Thoreau wrote in Walden, “because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...
by Brent McDougal | Apr 26, 2007 | Opinion
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote to Alabama clergymen his open Letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. The religious leaders questioned King’s tactics and timing, arguing for negotiation over direct action, forbearance over acquiescence to unjust laws,...
by Brent McDougal | Jul 15, 2004 | Opinion
Pastors and other Christian leaders often find themselves treading water in the rising flood of technology and its ministry applications. They ponder how the digital revolution can enhance community and personal/corporate connectivity with church members. They wonder...
