Yesterday, I sat with my wife at the kitchen table and shared with her my desire for a particular bird feeder that was a little out of my budget this month. Moments later, I opened Facebook to find...
On Privacy
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On Pastoral Scandal
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If there’s anything that’s going to get everybody talking, it’s when a pastor publicly fails on a moral level. This isn’t entirely unexpected, to be sure. And sometimes folks...
On Growth
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Growth. I have, believe it or not, become somewhat wary of this word when I hear it. Why? Because it seems whenever someone’s just compromised their morals, shifted their sexual ethics, made a...
On Leaving
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I left. I moved my family across the country at what looks like the drop of a hat to most people. This changed my reality entirely. I was pastoring, and now I’m not. I lived in Maine, and now I...
On “Compromise” And “the old time religion”
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I recently read a Facebook post (yes, this is often what stokes the fires of a blog entry, I confess) by a pastor whose stance on many things I’d genuinely appreciate, but whose stance on some...
On AI
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In many ways, the rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a great asset to humanity. Functioning as a fully-featured web trawler, it can navigate vast swaths of the worldwide web in seconds...
On Hard Times
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You’ve heard the following adage, surely: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” Though recently...
On The Dark Side Of Success
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There is a dark side of success, you know. In fact, here’s my opening salvo, my abstract, my thesis statement, if you will: The very traits that enable stellar achievements and great success...
On Competence
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I don’t think anyone with even a nominal appreciation for sanity or safety would offer a rebuttal to the following postulate: for high-stakes professions, particularly for jobs where other...
On the Song of the Sword
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There is nothing wrong with a barbecue, a gun range, a cool beard, or a bench press. Not even close. I like all of these things, to be sure. But I confess that when I see churches hosting...
