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November 2016

November 23, 2016
In my experience young pastors are a little too idealistic to entertain a side hustle...
November 15, 2016
One of my favorite films--definitely in the top 5--is Tim Burton's, Big Fish. The story...
November 12, 2016
A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...
November 08, 2016
If you follow this blog you can probably guess my politics. But you might be...
November 03, 2016
Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...
November 01, 2016
Leaf by Niggle is a personal favorite. It's right up there with Smith of Wootton...

October 2016

October 27, 2016
Some people apparently believe that children are better off when they're useless. I got a...
October 25, 2016
Last evening I was in attendance for a reading at a local library by contributors...
October 20, 2016
I continue my reflections on the New Testament household codes today with a subject you...
October 18, 2016
When my daughter was a little girl she didn't like stories with bad-guys in them....
October 14, 2016
Laws often trail practices, not the other way around. In most slave-keeping societies the law...
October 11, 2016
I've been working to reconcile myself to a reality I've been denying for years. What's...
October 06, 2016
Slavery is an ignominious fact of history. Historically it was also well-nigh universal. I know you've...
October 04, 2016
A little over a decade ago, when I first began writing fiction, a few of...

September 2016

September 29, 2016
In my old church we never read the household codes. (The church I'm referring to...
September 27, 2016
Karl Marx, among the absurd things he said (some things were pretty sound, but I'm...
September 22, 2016
Art makes its demands. Anyone who believes it is merely a matter of self-expression hasn't...
September 19, 2016
Pixar seems to have found that little spot behind the collective ear that we like...
September 14, 2016
I'm nearly done writing the text for a children's picture book. It's called Daisy (at...
September 12, 2016
The words love and economy rarely find their ways into the same sentence. Economics has been called the dismal science but...
September 09, 2016
Chapter One: Kick the Allegory Habit (Editorial note: this puts my last four posts on...
September 06, 2016
"Have the courage to conclude."  (Don't recall where I read that, but it's good advice.)...
September 02, 2016
G. K. Chesterton once spoke of nature as our "little sister" and C. S. Lewis...

August 2016

August 31, 2016
The movie mogul Sam Goldwyn once said, "If you want to send a message, use...
August 29, 2016
(Note: this is the first in a series of forays on the subject of preachers...
August 26, 2016
In my last post I spoke about taking one of my sons to college. Well,...
August 22, 2016
I suspect that I'll cry. The last time I cried was when we dropped his...
August 01, 2016
It is impossible to know how many regular readers there are for this blog. But...

July 2016

July 19, 2016
I have a book on the shelf that I really should to return to the...
July 14, 2016
Seemingly incompatible doctrines can actually reinforce each other. I'm thinking of Darwinism and gnosticism here....
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