Pink is the New Wednesday Beauty

The display doesn’t do justice to the depth of color in this gorgeous flower. Enjoy the glory.

Defining Religion in America

Later this summer, I’m teaching a section of Religion in America in our Themes in Religion and Culture curriculum. The course examines the intersection of various religious traditions and the pluralistic culture of America to see how each contributes and affects the cultural religion of this society. In order to contribute to this discussion, students [...]

Hidden Hope

I’m preaching from John chapter one this morning and there is a passage which offers much hope to those of us who have prayed and shared and done everything we could to brings friends and family to Christ without any outward signs of movement. When Jesus runs into the skeptical Nathanael (”can anything good come [...]

Failing to Share

We’ve all found ourselves in the situation described by Andrea at her blog where we don’t follow the scripted way of sharing the Truth with our friends or loved ones. Do you find yourself ashamed and disheartened, seeing your efforts at failure or do you trust God enough to work through your frailties and make [...]

Seaworthy by T.R. Pearson

Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting

 

 
I live torn between my two landscape loves, the mountains and the oceans but when it comes to literary choices, I’m a sucker for anything that occurs out on the wide open seas, particularly in a wind-driven craft. The photograph that graces the cover of Seaworthy [...]

Getting the Gospel Right: Restoring Community

Scot McKnight confronts our gospel of individuality and the problems that derive from it over at Out of Ur. He asks:
What then is Christian spirituality? It is the person who is restored to God, to self, to others and the world – all four directions for all time – by a gospel that emerges from [...]

Friday is for Rawk 3

 This is one of the favorites in my collection. Akira Takasaki of the Japanese band Loudness raging at the now defunct Stone in San Francisco. This band is huge in Japan but only picked up a niche following in the U.S. Technically brilliant, Takasaki is a virtuoso guitar player and the rest of the band keeps [...]

The Danger in Waking Up to Worship

Labberton comes to the end of The Dangerous Act of Worship with the answer to the question that has been gnawing at the reader from the first page; how? We have been reminded on each page that everything that matters is at stake in worship. The nudge that opens our eyes to see the world [...]

For the Common Good

I have an article in the latest PRISM magazine. It talks about the fallout from the Rick Warren invitation to Barack Obama to speak at the Saddleback AIDS conference. My contention is that we as a community led by Jesus need to put aside denominational and perhaps faith differences in order to seek to good [...]

Wednesday Beauty

New life is always a welcome sight. The delicate pink and white blossoms of the apple tree contrast nicely with the deep blue Rocky Mountain skies.