Holiness Reeducation

A Catholic priest in DC is taking major flack for refusing to give communion to a woman, who happens to be a lesbian, at her mother’s funeral. The Diocese has issued a formal apology about the lack of pastoral sensitivity that took place and said the priest was in the wrong, but according to Catholic […]

There is a fascinating article today regarding discoveries about the birth of the AIDS epidemic. Scientists have now found the exact region and time in which the epidemic began. The spread of the particular strand of HIV that has resulted in 99% of the deaths from AIDS is linked to a group of chimps in […]

  Most of you will be familiar with the scene in the movie the Matrix where Neo has to choose between taking the red pill or the blue pill. If he takes the blue pill he will wake up in his bed and his life will go on the same as it always has. If […]

There has been a bit of talk this week about Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s criticism of President Obama for what he calls “phony theology”. So what do we think about Santorum’s claim? To be more specific about the claim, Santorum has gone on the record saying that he does not doubt that the President […]

I couldn’t be more excited about what my dear friend Dave Terpstra and the wonderful people Kimba Langas is leading at Free the Girls are doing. CNN did a story on them that appeared this week on their efforts to fight human trafficking. Having been friends with Dave for a long time it has been […]

With the grounding of the Space Shuttle program run out of Cape Canaveral, Florida NASA now finds itself with a number of facilities that it can no longer use. It has launch pads, giant shuttle movers, huge warehouses where assembly took place, and one of the longest runways in the world, all essentially with a […]

If we are supposed to honor our presidents today, what better way of doing so than with some presidential ramblings.   The Presidents of the United States are one fascinating bunch of men. They offer such a rich variety of figures to study, learn from, and complain about. Of course they have just about the […]

There are few Christian leaders guaranteed to make more news than Mark Driscoll. With the release of his latest book Real Marriage, co-written with his wife Grace, there has been a tremendous amount of news created. The book has sold very well. The book has been reviewed by lots of people. A lot of people […]

Has anybody ever written about Whitney Houston and Jeremy Lin in the same sentence before? Well this week they are linked by the rambling web of theology that incorporates my mind. Whitney makes me sad The news of Whitney Houston’s death over the weekend frankly wasn’t shocking at all. As soon as I heard about […]

Jim Collins, in his masterful book Good to Great says that good is the enemy of great. Good makes us comfortable. Good removes our desire to make the difficult decision necessary to be great. Here are the opening words from Collins book in chapter 1. Good is the enemy of great. And that is one […]