Defy the Status Quo; Undo Something Today

The older my daughter gets, the more I start to think about her education – the formal kind, at least. When it’s time, what kind of school will she go to? What should I look for in a school? How will what she learns in elementary school impact the kind of person...

Let’s be “for”

One more day. At last. Just one more day of attack ads, phone calls, and mailbox stuffers. Hallelujah. Politics will still dominate the news for days, and if the race is really close there could be screaming, but at least the election will be over.  It...

Does Your Church Need to Protest More?

I agree with theologian Robert McAfee Brown in “The Spirit of Protestantism” in which he said: “There has not been a moment in the church’s life when it has not stood in need of reformation, redirection, and renewal at the hand of God.”...

Religion and Politics Are Poor Teammates

The tragedy of Billy Graham’s endorsement of Mitt Romney is not Graham’s choice for president of the United States. It would be the same had he endorsed President Obama. The tragedy is that he made an endorsement at all. His removal of Mormonism from his...

Can’t get enough …

Back in the 1960s, Post cereals promoted its popular “Sugar Crisp” cereal with a singing cartoon character named Sugar Bear, who had first appeared on the Saturday morning “Linus the Lionhearted” cartoon show. Sugar Bear was sort of an ursine...