This past weekend, Neo-Nazi demonstrators- including a number of terrorists armed militia-style gathered under 150 miles from the nation’s capital. They assembled to protest the city of Charlottesville’s decision to cease the practice of venerating a well-known leader of a violent contingent that once attempted to destroy the United States of America. Only after 1.2…
It is fundamental to our faith that we love what God loves. This is the part we should have heard from the beginning. This is Christianity 101. As the people of God, we are being changed into the men and women we were made to be, a people who reflect God’s character to the world.…
And God saw that it was good. As I sit down to write, I can hear my housemate working in his workshop. I think he told me earlier that he was building a birdhouse. I wonder how he will feel about his work when he is done. And I wonder if I will feel like…
It seems strange to wonder what a God who refers to himself as love would love. Then again, as I understand the faith, a little bit of wonder is a good thing. And so I wonder if it would be best to say first that he loves all that he has made, from the mountains…
In recent days, there have been an unseasonable amount of new readers to my little blog. Welcome. Thanks for reading. As a way of saying thanks for reading, I thought I would give you a quote from a long-deceased, forgotten-by-history German theologian named Helmut Thielicke. Since the next couple of posts are going to be…
When I first met my wife, I decided I wanted to abandon myself to knowing everything about her. So first I learned who her favorite band was. And I was hooked. I wanted to know her dreams, what she wanted to be when she grew up. I wanted to find out what it was about…
Last week, we participated in one of the most unique elections, certainly in my lifetime. We re-elected our president in the midst of the lowest economic situation since the Great Depression. In my state of Washington, we effectively legalized pot and we sanctified same-sex marriage. With these rulings fresh in my mind, a conversation I…
I have been doing a lot of cooking lately and I must say that I am getting pretty good at it, aside from a few bumps in the road. Each morning I make a couple of eggs, maybe some toast, or a bit of French toast, when the time is right. And I love to…
I have spent the past month basking in the glow of love. As I am sure most people who have been married can attest to, the experience of joining your life together with another, celebrating with your family and closest friends, then running away to be alone with your beloved is well-beyond description. How do…
Yesterday I caught myself up on all those important things I have been missing out on while sipping beer and chugging water on the sunny shores of Mexico with my new wife. You know, important things, like deleting the two hundred ninety-nine useless emails out of my inbox and saving that one useful email, like…
