On the Trail of ‘What Would Jesus Drive?’

We had an audacious goal when we began planning the “What Would Jesus Drive?” (WWJDrive) educational campaign. We hoped that we could help turn transportation into a moral issue in this country. You can judge whether our efforts thus far have begun to meet...

Preaching Ethically

Most of us in the church want to assume that the preachers among us do so from Christian motives and by Christian methods. What we find instead is “it ain’t necessarily so!” Most of us in the church want to assume that the preachers among us do so...

Surprised by Christmas

Last year about this time, the year’s first snowfall surprised everyone. We were caught off guard, though it was mid-December and weather folks had predicted a snowstorm in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., where we lived. Like many people that day, I drove in spite of...

‘Two Towers’ Features a Grand Gollum

No one was interested in portraying Gollum as a completely evil being. Philippa Boyens, one of the screenwriters, said Tolkien believed that people weren’t totally evil, and that the potential for evil existed in everyone. However, the ring’s power...

Is the Incoming Senate Majority Leader a Racist?

Lott has had over 30 years in public life to establish a clear record of opposition to racism and for civil rights. He has demonstrated a pattern of playing the race card. Lott was referring to Thurmond’s 1948 presidential campaign, in which Thurmond defended...