We Need Unbiased Data About Climate Change

The government is struggling with a huge issue. They are debating the sensibilities of changing the map on the back of seed packets. You remember those seed packets with a map of the United States on the back. The map had sweeping colors that were related to a key at...

Battling Prejudice at Home and Abroad

I recently traveled to Romania, where Buckner International enables churches to give shoes and socks to orphans who live in group homes. Meeting these children to give them humanitarian aid was amazing. Considering the country is less than 20 years removed from the...

The Bible and Pedophilia

I have been pondering this issue of sexual predators in the church. Much of the conversation has revolved around larger denominational structures, rather than local churches. I think that has happened for at least two reasons. Pedophilia was for the most part...

4,000 War Dead More Than Just a Number

The number of dead Americans in Iraq passed 4,000 this week. It was almost lost in the midst of the Easter holidays. I only knew one of those 4,000, but it changed my view of the families that have lost, the soldiers who fight and the awful cost of war. The soldier I...