"Drawing Water Without a Bucket"
I’m honored to do a little guest blogging for Lutheran World Relief. Here’s numero uno, trying to answer the question of why everyone likes to talk innovation but so few actually innovate
Why the Grammys need to thank the Black church for Whitney Houston
Counting the reasons why the Grammys need to get down on their knees and thank the Black church for anything good in American music
Super Bowl XLVI: America’s Holy Day
Tim Tebow won’t be there. But don’t be surprised if God makes an appearance this Sunday, because we are entering holy days
The Supreme Court, a "minister," and the issue of trust
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in perhaps the most significant case involving religious liberty and the separation of church and state in decades. But it got me thinking about more than liberty
The Bible as literature: Marilynne Robinson on "the book of books"
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s on to something
Finding Christmas in an incomplete sentence
The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only gospel that says nothing about the nativity?
In memoriam: Vaclav Havel
A second prolific writer and public intellectual has died in the space of a few days. But their lives couldn’t have been more different
The 4.74 degrees of separation between you and me
So, apparently, the six degrees that used to separate you and me has shrunk. The number of people separating anyone from anyone else in the world is now 4.74