Nobody liked the tax collectors all that much, but if you were the “chief” tax collector – and wealthy on top of that – you were particularly shunned and reviled. Such was the story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10). I’ve always…

A Muslim couple stormed a holiday office party in Southern California on Wednesday, gunning down fourteen people – and seriously wounding others – before dying hours later in a shootout with police. The pair had with them a huge arsenal…

“The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms …” (Deuteronomy 33:27). As we quickly approach Thanksgiving, let me add one more thing for which we ought to give thanks: the immanence of God. By “immanence”…

I’m quoting Habakkuk (1:2): “O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you ‘Violence!’ and you will not save?” It was another day when those words were penned, but something about…

An academy is an institution of higher learning or research, and the word “academy” can be traced back to Plato’s school of philosophy. When I think of “the academy” in general, I think of distinguished authorities within a field of…

What do you discover when you make phone calls to 35,000 neighbors? A newly-released survey – the U.S. Religious Landscape Study – finds that 77% of American adults identify with a faith group. Good news. Findings by the Pew Research…

It’s happening today and tomorrow in Lexington, at Keeneland: the Breeders’ Cup. I’m not advocating that you spend your money wagering at the track, but I do think there’s something wonderfully intriguing and majestic about horses. And one of the…

Some of you might not know that as a kid I was totally into meteorology. I practiced being a TV weatherman with my maps and my charts and all the rest of my props. So I’m kind of fascinated by…

I’m quite sure that I will not do justice to this subject, but please allow me to try. I am, like you, grieved by the headlines. Late yesterday Palestinians set fire to a site in the West Bank (in the…

“But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate …” First Kings 22:34. Not a chance! Most of you know that Eileen, Joshua, and I lived in…