You betcha. Chicago politicians have to go by the rules. The President’s right-hand man, Rahm Emanuel, has now been declared not legal to run for Mayor of Chicago. Why? Because the rules say that he had to have been a resident of Chicago for the previous year, but President Obama asked Rahm — who has lived here his whole life — to come to DC to take care of the White House — and Rahm did so and now it’s... Read more
This is news to me… There’s a strange phenomenon in the Christian world right now: middle-aged white pastors are talking about rap music and, even more strangely, actually listening to it and recommending it. Suddenly 65-year-old pastors who wear plaid jackets are interviewing dudes who wear their hats all funny and say things in their songs like, “They got ya head bobbin til ya lose ya necklace.” This may not be a long-lived phenomenon, but while it lasts, I thought it... Read more
Educators often scale abilities so we map “critical thinking” or “induction” or “knowledge” from the basics to the higher levels. Christian leaders often talk about “spiritual maturity” or “spirituality.” Sometimes we ask what “depth” or “devotion” mean or what they look like in reality. So, what are the “marks” of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus? or what are the scales we use for measuring spirituality? What do you think of the following scale? Recently I was pondering this question and... Read more
Happiness has become a hot topic for discussion among philosophers and theologians, and one reason for this is that it has always been a part of intellectual history. But the discussion was more or less taken over by the social sciences and it became a discussion about our inner state — answering the question “What makes you (feel) happy?” Healing and happiness are connected; only as we are healed do we become happy. Notice these words: “Healing is learned by... Read more
Perhaps you’ve heard of this and perhaps you haven’t. One approach to Bible reading is called lectio divina — sacred reading of the sacred text. In some ways it is devotional reading, but in other ways it is more rigorous and methodical than typical devotional reading. What is perhaps less known is that lectio divina is an ancient method of Bible reading. Stephen J. Binz (SSL, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome), whose ministry has been focused on teaching Bible how to... Read more
Brilliant and beautiful. A good morning reflection for us on this Lord’s Day. Showing once again that if we are true to the Bible, we will talk about the LORD, about the Lord Jesus Christ, about God. Spread the word. Read more
From Gordon Macdonald, An hour before, when we’d picked our seats in the almost-empty sanctuary, it had never occurred to me that, even in seat-selection, one might actually be experiencing the mysterious guidance of the Holy Spirit, who might have had this future conversation in mind. The rest of the day I kept recalling that serendipitous encounter. What if I’d resisted the impulse to connect with the man in front of me? What if I’d not invited him to sit... Read more
Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
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