Does Standing Up for Convictions Enhance Your Witness?

The World Cup matches currently being held in Brazil started on June 12 and the final match will be in Rio de Janeiro on July 13. Perhaps, like me, you don’t know or care a lot about soccer. And many of you may be more interested in the upcoming games of the...

Why Do You Believe What You Believe?

All of us have a lot of beliefs about a lot of different things. Our most basic beliefs might be called our presuppositions, those ideas that are rooted in our worldview or faith commitment. But why do we believe what we believe? Where does our faith come from? Faith...

Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

One winter, after my wife, June, and I had visited my “snowbird” parents in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, we set out from there to make the long road trip to the Washington, D.C., area by way of Atlanta. On our second day of travel, soon after heading...

Captured World War II Soldier Learned to Forgive

A year ago at this time, I wrote about “God’s Samurai.” That was what Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida, the lead pilot of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was called after he later became a Christian. This column is more about that same story, but it centers...