Faith, Fiction, Friends

We’ve reached the last chapter of Michael Spencer’s Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped-Spirituality . He calls this ch...

“The Christian’s life as a disciple is lived in the world.” So writes Michael Spencer in Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-...

“When the New Testament was written,” writes Michael Spencer in Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality , “it ...

I got hit right between the eyes this week. “Individualists who are bold enough to make their own approach to life and faith known upset t...

I was 24, working in Texas. I was walking to my office when I passed a new colleague in the hallway. “How’s it going?” I said causally as I ...

“One of the saddest realities I’ve experienced,” writes Michael Spencer in Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spiritua...

“Faith, alive in our weakness, looks like a war,” writes Michael Spencer in Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spiritu...

Michael Spencer doesn’t like adjectives. In Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality , he takes on all those ad...

It’s another stupendous edition of Pleasantly Disturbed Thursdays, with our leader Duane Scott in command and leading the way through the d...

The night I became a believer (almost 38 years ago), I was given a green padded-cover copy of The Living Bible . I had read portions of the ...

I grew up in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. In high school, I attended a Southern Baptist church. In college, I didn’t attend anythin...

I was raised in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. My mother’s family was Lutheran; my father’s family Southern Baptist. In high school, ...

Over at Internet Monk, Jeff Dunn posted a book review Thursday under the title of “ Christianity’s Forgotten Man .” The book is Jesus Manife...

Some 17 years ago, I was a member of an advisory board for a congressman (I’m not trying to impress; it lasted for about a year and then sto...

There is a word, a religious word that is used today to the point of mind-numbing suffocation. That word is spirituality. It means anything ...

For going on 40 years, I’ve made a living with words: stories, articles, news releases, scripts, speeches, web sites, tweets (I tweet for wo...

Back in 1993, I was leading a corporate communications team that decided to launch an email newsletter for employees. It sounds rather quain...

What’s called “the worship wars” has plagued the evangelical church for years – the arguments over traditional versus contemporary versus “a...

An executive for whom I worked for several years was fond of saying “policy is what you do, not what you say,” the corporate business versio...

My online friend Nancy Rosback , whose pictures I use a lot on this blog, has started a new blog called Bend the Page – a place to talk abo...