Letting Go: College Start Signals One Era’s End

by | Aug 24, 2011 | Opinion

Facebook postings these days are littered with children posing before their first day of school. Elementary school kids have big smiles, backpacks and themed lunch boxes. Those in the middle-school range are working hard not to look like they’re working hard at...

The Dangerous Arrogance of Refusing to Compromise

by | Aug 24, 2011 | Opinion

Compromise is “a rather complex issue that deserves serious thought.” So I wrote in an Aug. 5 comment following that day’s blog posting in which I cited Max Weber’s oft-quoted statement, “politics is the art of compromise.” In...

Examining Immigration “ One Family at a Time

by | Aug 23, 2011 | Opinion

Teaching can be humanizing work. This is how it happens. The Rodriguez family walks down the hall and turns the corner to my room. “Buenos dias, Mrs. Rodriguez. Buenos dias, niños! ¿Como esta ustedes? Welcome to my classroom,” I greet them. We sit down in...

Remembering the Integrity of John Stott

by | Aug 23, 2011 | Opinion

Karin and I have spent time in London and Poland, at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, one of the oldest universities in the world, where the quadrennial International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) World Assembly was held. The latter brought together...

If Jesus is on the outside … (revised)

by | Aug 22, 2011 | Opinion

A few years back, folks who keep up with archaeology in the Middle East began to hear of a surprising find somewhere in the hills of Galilee — a group of codices made of lead. “Codices” is plural for “codex,” a name given to the earliest...