Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Thin Places

One quick note: I’ll be out of town for the next week, so I’ve scheduled some posts from afar. But I’m not tech-savvy enough to know how to update my Facebook and Twitter status to demonstrate that those posts are available. So you can just check in throughout the week, or go ahead and subscribe…

No more let sins and sorrows grow,Nor thorns infest the ground;He comes to make His blessings flowFar as the curse is found,Far as the curse is found,Far as, far as, the curse is found. Sin isn’t a hot topic at Christmastime, or, for that matter, any other time of year here in 21st century America.…

Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!Let men their songs employ;While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plainsRepeat the sounding joy,Repeat the sounding joy,Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy. It’s a theme that runs through the Bible, this idea that the natural world sings God’s praises, even if we humans forget or neglect to do so.…

Joy to the World , the Lord is come!Let earth receive her King;Let every heart prepare Him room,And Heaven and nature sing,And Heaven and nature sing,And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing. “Let every heart prepare Him room.” It struck me this morning that there are three aspects to the waiting we do in the…

It’s a little late in the game, but I’ve been meaning to recommend a book: God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas. It’s a beautiful (including color pictures of major works of art throughout the centuries) book with reflections on Advent by poets, theologians, and other writers, including Kathleen Norris, Eugene Peterson, Richard John…

Two quotations worth pondering, the first from one of the most influential thinkers of the past two centuries: “With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of…

New Post on the Park Forum: “Obama’s Take on Good and Evil”

(I’m in the midst of writing final papers for the two classes I’ve taken this semester. The following thoughts were prompted by a paper for my class on Human Uniqueness from a Theological and Biological perspective…) The Christian Church has a long history of determining that certain humans were more human than others. Some were…

New Post on the Park Forum: Ethics and Immigration. Incidentally, I recommend reading the NYT article upon which this is based. Not every day that a pastor prays his way onto a plane in order to comfort an Indonesian at risk of deportation…

As we walked away from Penny’s annual IEP (Individualized Education Plan) meeting yesterday, I said to Peter, “I think Penny goes to the best pre-school in the nation.” I’m not kidding. For an hour, five professionals sat in a conference room and talked about our child. The child development expert, her classroom teacher, her speech…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners