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Election-Year Musings: Part One

January 2012

I’m so sick of hearing about this year’s election that I decided to write some of my own thoughts on the subject. I’ve just finished reading two excellent books that caution Christians about trusting too much in politics: A Public Faith, by Miroslav Volf, and To Change the World, by James Davison Hunter. Even more alarming, unChristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons details the overall effect of Christians’ courtship with politics: as recently as 1996, 85 percent of “outsiders” who claim no religious belief had a ...

The Two Most Disarming Words

January 2012

For a number of years a friend of mine named Craig Detweiler has been taking his communications students from Biola University and Pepperdine University to the Sundance festival of independent films. One year the festival featured a sold-out showing of a film scathing in its portrayal of American evangelicals. The film tells the story of a white-bread suburban family killed in a car wreck on the way to a Southern Baptist church meeting. Upon their arrival in heaven a tattooed ...

Poland’s Three Uprisings

December 2011

The week before Thanksgiving, my favorite American holiday, I visited Poland to help the publisher of my books there, Credo, celebrate their tenth anniversary. Warsaw is a lovely city, situated along a broad river. Its main street, now a cobblestone pedestrian mall, winds past baroque churches, a university, the royal palace, and an Old Town of narrow alleys and medieval-style buildings. The visitor quickly learns, however, that these “old” buildings are actually new, rebuilt after the destruction of World War ...

Movin’ Down the Road

November 2011

You haven’t seen a new posting from me for a while and for a good reason. We have moved, and I’ve spent the last few weeks first packing then unpacking boxes, and in between times negotiating over help lines to the Philippines and India in order to get network, phone, cable, and computer systems up and running in a new house. Nineteen years in the same place leads to a lot of accumulation, and we’ve used this opportunity to winnow ...

Notes from the Great Southland

September 2011

In September I spoke eight times in Australia and twice in New Zealand, sharing a platform with the actors from the U.K. with whom we’ve toured previously. The only kangaroo we saw in Australia outside of a petting zoo was a dead one, a big red joey that had been hit by a car. We saw plenty of exotic birds, though, and had a thrilling boat ride in Sydney Harbor. On our last night I attended a piano concert by ...

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Election-Year Musings: Part One

The Two Most Disarming Words

Poland’s Three Uprisings

Movin’ Down the Road

Notes from the Great Southland