What’s Next?

Given the diversity and polarization of our culture, we frequently find people hold starkly differing perspectives. So different, in fact, that they sometimes seem more like alternate perceptions of reality rather than just different opinions. In this current political season, evidence of this divide between people is painfully obvious. But politics is not the only [...]

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The High Price of Belonging

One of the things I feel most acutely in this particular stage of my life is the sensation of being alone. No, against all odds, Susan hasn’t tired of me and asked me to leave. I have not been cast out by anyone. I know of no place I would care to go where I [...]

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There’s a line out the door at Joshua’s Restaurant

Joshua was a man on a mission. He had a business concept paired up with passion. He wanted to open a restaurant that would introduce his neighbors in his new adopted home in America to the cuisine of his homeland, Basileia. Though his new home was in a large metropolitan city, there were very few [...]

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I know what you’re against. But what are you for?

A little while back, Susan and I met with a group of people who, to us, seem a little unclear as to whom or what they are. It is a group which meets regularly to share fellowship, discuss their attempts at living out their commitment to follow Jesus, and to encourage one another in their [...]

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YOU tell me.

Those who study trends among American Christians suggest that there is a change taking place in some believers’ attitudes toward the church. I think that they are right, and I have been forming a theory as to why. So I want to ask you to help me test a hypothesis. If 1) you aspire to [...]

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A Worthwhile (but potentially troubling) Read

There are a few blogs I check out from time to time. One is InternetMonk.com. Like me, the writer Michael Spencer, has an extensive background in the institutional church, and his continuing connection to it is as ambivalent as my own. I am attaching a link to one of his recent posts that is a “squirmer”. [...]

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