I write this as a passionate foreign language major. With career ambitions in teaching or international law, I received my undergrad degree in Spanish from the University of Kentucky in 1984. I earned a 4.0 in my major, under the…

Still reflecting on all that I have seen here in D.C. surrounding the inauguration, I am rather quiet tonight. The climate in Washington is invigorating, in both a political and meteorological sense, but I am silently pondering the responsibility that…

The evangelical culture has dropped the ball. It’s my guess that no one intended to drop the ball, but we did. After the widespread failure of “purity culture” to deliver the healthy marriages and families that it promised – at…

I just don’t have enough faith. Let me be clear: I don’t have enough faith to believe that you and I evolved from nothing. In fact, I don’t believe that species-to-species evolutionists can answer my most fundamental question: If nothing…

We in affluent America rarely think of just “one thing” for Christmas, but maybe we should. The Apostle Paul expressed a powerful sentiment with these words (Philippians 3:13-14): “… one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward…

This photograph captures our 2010 Christmas. We were living in Southern California, and Josh had just turned 11. In the storehouse of my memory, it was a special year, as Eileen and I enjoyed that season of our son’s life…

When I was a kid in Christmas pajamas – fourth grade to be exact – I decided to spark things up a bit. We had a nice fire in our South Georgia fireplace, but to me things were getting a…

What drives you? I’ve been thinking about such things, trying to put together all of the truths that I’ve learned about human nature over all of these years in ministry. Plus, I’ve looked in the mirror. You and I are…

Nearly 80 years have passed since World War II. Those eight decades have included some close calls. The Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 pushed international conflict to the…

It’s the time of year when Christmas movies begin to beckon our attention, and I’m wondering if you’ve ever watched “Holiday Inn.” For a lighthearted evening, it’s one of our family favorites. Irving Berlin wrote twelve songs for the 1942…