I want to bring two headlines into conversation with one another and ask the question: how might the lack of faith among the electorate be connected to the growing lack of faith in elections? U.S. News reports a growing distrust in the elections with the headline: A Growing Lack of Faith in Elections. We are […]
Update: On Saturday, May 4, Rachel Held Evans passed from this life into life eternal. With her family and friends, I grieve. You need only Google her name to understand just how influential a woman she was. You have only to consider that her children are 3 and not yet 1 to realize just how […]
In 2016, on the Saturday of Holy Week, I shared the following story. I want to share it anew today because the darkness of the world is dark and life is difficult. As we look around at the brokenness of the world we can feel the darkness. The headlines bear daily witness to the taking of innocent […]
The sound waves from the world of radio and podcasts are full of the things of this world. As Christians, our job is to help others perceive this world through the lens of eternity. Every day at reconnectwithcarmen.com and on myfaithradio.com we strive to align our response to what is going on in […]
If you wanted to reach the lost for Christ, where would you go this Easter Sunday? Why not Coachella? That’s where Kanye West is headed with his Gospel themed “Sunday Service.” While no one seems to know exactly what the Chicago based rapper has planned, according to RNS, “West’s Sunday Services have been highly exclusive […]
Every year on the first of April, we all proceed a little more cautiously. We read social media with a little more skepticism. We’d rather be on the inside of joke than to discover that we are the butt of one. This is a day for fools, and we’d really rather not be taken for […]
The institution of marriage as an essential building block of civil society is under cultural assault. No, I’m not talking about adultery, divorce rates nor same sex marriage. I’m talking about the marriage of George and Kellyanne Conway. Assaulting marriage, any marriage, is expressly contrary to God’s will as described in Hebrews 13:4 which declares […]
Discipline. When we first hear the word discipline it does not ordinarily bring to mind thoughts of joyful anticipation. When we think of discipline we don’t think of luxuriating in a warm bubble bath by candlelight to soft music. We think instead about being sent to our rooms or losing privileges. We tend to think […]
[In anticipation of my conversation later this week with Miroslav Volf, I wanted to re-up this interview I did with him in 2016 and the audio from another conversation in 2017. Enjoy!] Miroslav Volf is a well-known theologian, leader and author to talk with us about how Christians can live out their faith in our […]
We are living in a “selfie” culture of self-centered self-identification, self-promotion, and self-glorification. It could not be more contrary to the Christian worldview wherein the self yields always and in all ways to the identity of Christ. The very word- identity- is a loaded one today. Wrapped up in layers of politics and isms and […]