Big money?

There must be big money in medigap insurance. Apparently some government records that include birthdays are open to the public and regularly mined by companies hoping to profit from the information. I don’t know whether information brokers glean and sell such...

Diatribe or Dialogue: Which Way Will You Choose?

A Christian psychologist and a Jewish philosopher have been watching and listening to a public conversation that was a political campaign for key positions of leadership within their society. The psychologist was troubled that what should be a reasonable conversation...

Is Your Church Like Cut Flowers?

A friend recently had surgery and we wanted to send flowers as she recuperated. My wife, Kathy, asked: “What do you think? A bouquet of flowers or a plant?” Knowing this friend has a new house and could later use the plant in the landscape, we decided on a...

Whatever Happened to Missions Sunday in Churches?

Whatever happened to Missions Sunday? Does anyone else remember when almost every evangelical church devoted one Sunday every quarter, if not every month, to world missions and world evangelism? Sure, I know, a lot of our evangelical practices were what would now be...

Why the Bible Isn’t Your Instruction Manual

How do you read the Bible? That question has a range of answers from the simple, “You open the book and read the words on the pages,” to the complex, “You need to understand the culture surrounding the events and you need to understand the form of...