by Guy Sayles | Nov 17, 2011 | Opinion
Nothing is easier to come by than pessimism. There are plenty of reasons for it. The economic outlook is (still) gloomy: scarce jobs, skyrocketing healthcare costs and crashing retirement investments. Political discourse is relentlessly coarsening. Leaders can’t...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 10, 2011 | Opinion
The title of J.B. Phillips’ classic book got it right: “Your God is Too Small.” Many of us have, sometimes without our knowing it, substituted a paltry and puny God for the great and gracious God made known in Jesus. We’ve manufactured a god...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion
It has been odd but good: over the last month or so, when I have been jogging through town, people have spontaneously decided to join me. I’m still not sure why. Maybe it’s because I was moving so slowly and they liked the idea of winning an easy race. Or...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 17, 2011 | Opinion
Maybe you will find this hard to believe, but, from years and years of paying attention to the fears and hopes that people carry deep in their hearts, I know it to be true: More people than you might guess are sure that God is mostly unhappy with them, endlessly...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 11, 2011 | Opinion
In what way does Jesus inform, and perhaps transform, our understanding of leadership? As we answer that question, we need to resist the temptations to make him over in our image, domesticate him and limit his reach. We don’t need to dress him up in a blue suit,...
