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Last New Year’s eve (2005), Kim and I took out some index cards and wrote questions at the top of them. They were questions about the last year and about the year to come. Every so often this last year we’d look back at them to both remind ourselves that we had ever asked them…

It was December 1976 and I decided to write President Ford a letter. He had just lost to Gov. Jimmy Carter and I wanted to console him. I recall writing some very 9-year-old sort of things – something about how Gov. Carter was just a peanut farmer. One day the following spring I came home…

It can’t be true… – a virgin birth?– an old pregnant cousin?– angels appearing left and right?– God become not just man but a baby?– astrologers from the east?– a murderous king?– a loyal husband?– a birthing room attended by cows? It makes no sense. Plus, the stories all contradict each other, right? They aren’t…

My colleague and friend Patton Dodd wrote a beautiful article for the Financial Times. It is titled simply, “My pastor disgraced our church.” Please read. My favorite paragraph: Even when I winced over things Pastor Ted would say as a representative of evangelicals, even when I wished he’d focus on poor people rather than Republican…

News reports like this one reveal that U2’s Bono was “…alarmed we could not get a commitment from the Democratic leadership to prevent the loss of $1b in the continuing resolution to fight AIDS, malaria and extreme poverty.” The problem, of course, isn’t just a Democratic fault or a Republican fault (as both parties point…

A couple of weeks ago I posted an open letter to James Dobson and Chuck Colson. It was in response to various misrepresentations about my book and about my argument for a Christian “fast” from politics. This week I received a private letter from Chuck. While I can’t share the content of the letter, I…

My daughters (9 & 11) are leading me astray: 1. Click on the link below.2. Click once on the snowman to activate the penguin3. Click again on the snowman to hit the penguin as he descends from the cliff. Click here for: Smack the Penguin I do not think that this relates to something Frank…

here is the email that went around this morning to the New Life staff: Dear Staff, Wow, what an amazing week! Wonderland [New Life Church’s Christmas program]was attended by more people this year than ever before. Sunday morning wasan incredible display of how God uses ordinary people to do extraordinarythings. In the midst of all…

The Denver Post reports this morning that another member of New Life Church’s staff has been asked to leave because of sexual misconduct. An executive staff member at New Life Church in Colorado Springs has resigned after admitting to sexual misconduct and other mistakes – the result of an examination of the staff’s moral makeup…

I came across a very moving article via Andrew Sullivan’s site – it is entitled Surprise Ending and is found in The Christian Century. The author is reflecting on the end of his life and writes: If ever there were an occasion to contemplate a single possibility, the deathbed would be it. And yet, at…
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