Waiting, watching and wondering

Our first daughter turned 16 last Saturday, got her official Georgia driver’s license yesterday and went on her first solo drive this evening. As a result, I have a better understanding of the parental love the Bible attributes to God.The adventure was mild by...

Insights from an immersion

With appreciation for his superb writing skills, I’ve been gliding my way through Kevin Roose’s “The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University.” It is both insightful and entertaining, the two marks of a...

Non-prophet religion

Someone at prophecies.org has revealed the staggering news that (drum roll, please) President Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ.This insight will require some rethinking on my part. At a McDonald’s in Rome, Ga., in 1980, a man explained to me that it was Ronald...

Remembering Ana

An email from David D’Amico that I received yesterday morning as my plane made its way to the gate in Atlanta brought sadness, prayers and reflections on a beautiful life. His lovely wife, Ana, had died after a struggle with breast cancer.An Argentine native...

The good kind of God talk

A Phoenix taxi driver is planning to give one of his kidneys to Rita Van Loenen, a patient he has been taking to dialysis appointments recently according to news reports.Thomas Chappell told CNN that he heard God telling him to offer his kidney. The caring...