Spreading Love Where We CanIn the 2021 novel, The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot (HarperPerennial/Harper Collins), Marianne Cronin tells the story of two terminally…6d ago16d ago1
“… [A]nd the bottom dropped out:” The Spirituality of Getting FiredWork and Christianity have never had an easygoing relationship. In Christianity’s early days, there were no such thing as paid religious…Feb 281Feb 281
Seditious EfficiencyCobra Kai is a guilty pleasure for Gen-X people like me, for whom Ralph Macchio was our common middle-school crush. The show depicts the…Feb 211Feb 211
Responsible ReckoningIt’s said that Saint Teresa of Avila tripped and fell into a mud puddle while rushing to bring food to the poor. She purportedly screamed…Feb 14Feb 14
Calling Evil, EvilA colleague at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School told me earlier this week that he’s hearing a lot of concern on campus…Feb 71Feb 71
Totalitarians Think They’re So Tough…but I’ll place my bet on the Consensus-Builder when it comes to real change every time.Jan 241Jan 241
Closer Together and Closer to GodOn Monday and Tuesday of this week, I offered two keynote addresses and a sermon to a group of 50ish senior pastors at what’s called the…Jan 17Jan 17
What I CultivateForty-thousand feet above the continental US and heading west, I’m just beginning to reflect on my third trip to connect with Andover…Jan 101Jan 101
A Framework, a Relationship, and a CommunityWhen I read for pleasure, it’s always secular fiction. The problem with secular fiction for me is, however, its secularism.Jan 32Jan 32
