Mar 20, 2020 | General, Pop Culture, Shared Life
If you are like me, you are trying to figure out what we’re going to do with ourselves for the next few days, weeks, or maybe even months during this coronavirus quarantine and social distancing exercise. It will be important for us to think ahead about how we...
Oct 15, 2014 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture, Theological Thinking
Watching Bono’s apology scroll across my screen has caused me to ask a question on behalf of the the church: Who do we think we are? This week, U2 frontman Bono apologized for the free album that was automatically uploaded to every iTunes account in the world....
Sep 6, 2014 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture
Gene Simmons, famous for his theatrical rock shows with his band, Kiss, has declared “rock music is finally dead.” What he’s actually saying, when the interview is more carefully read, is that the rock music industry is dead. “It’s very sad for new...
Jul 26, 2013 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture
I am about 9. The lights are in my eyes, and I feel like I need to throw up, go to the bathroom, or maybe pass out. There are adults cheering. My parents are encouraging me. And the kids around me are either yelling or staring at me like I am a mortal enemy. If...
Jul 5, 2013 | General, Pop Culture
Have you noticed that corruption and decay touch our lives constantly? I see problems in society and culture, across a variety of communities and in every strata of our existence. But do we know the root causes? When my kids act up, I always ask them a simple...
Jun 21, 2013 | Leading the Church, Pop Culture, US Politics
Recently, I spent the day with a friend who would probably like nothing better than to exhume Hitler’s dead body and raise it from the dead just so he could kill him again. Same goes for Stalin and a few other evil world leaders. We had a great conversation...
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