Pastors are precious. I know my pastor is precious and I know your pastor is precious too! October is Pastor Appreciation Month so how can we make a month to remember? My top 10 (COVID friendly) Pastor Appreciation Ideas: This may not be the year to have an all-church ya’ll come public appreciation event but […]
As the children’s book affirms, “everyone has a mother.” But what about a second mother? Kamala Harris identifies Regina Shelton as her second mom and she’s a woman we need to know. Regina and Arthur Shelton were the downstairs neighbors in Oakland, Calif. when Kamala was just seven years old and her parents divorced. The […]
Every morning a new headline to break our heart, sear our conscience, convulse our emotions, and threaten our sense of safety and sanity. It feels increasingly as if the world upended – and there are those declaring with certainty that the End is near. How now shall we live this moment, this day? Three thoughts: […]
The wake is over. George Floyd’s homegoing service was carried by every major outlet around the world. From PBS to CNN to FOX to the BBC and beyond, the world had wall to wall coverage of a four hour funeral for a black man whose name was unknown to all but a few people just […]
Over the past three days I’ve had three conversations with three different people asking and answering the same query: the world needs to change, what can we do to move that change in a redemptive direction? The first conversation didn’t go well. My conversation partner was a generation older than me. He sees and hears […]
As the pandemic matures, watch for a wave of lawsuits. From business deals that didn’t go through to hospitals that didn’t accommodate scheduled surgeries to every other institution, business or entity whose failure to live up to their side of a contract resulted in injury – perceived or otherwise – to someone else is going […]
What are the assumptions you’re making about me and what assumptions am I making about you before we even start talking? I’m assuming that: you are a fellow Saint in Christ, you are passionately pursuing the advancement of His Kingdom purposes in the world, you’re literally on a mission, you’ve got a story to tell, […]
Four headlines tell the story of six babies, three boys and three girls, and demonstrate the cultural confusion of our day. Two headlines celebrating the births of a son to Boris Johnson and another to Anderson Cooper. Johnson is the Prime Minister of England, not married to the mother of his latest child, and the […]
April 22, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. There was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake in California. As earthquakes go, that’s relatively minor. But it lead to a flurry of social media posts about “angering Mother Nature,” how Mother Nature was being provoked by human “assaults upon her” and myriad other references to the […]
I’m writing today to say, “I miss you.” As I was experiencing Easter 2020 with my family, in our home, apart from the gathering of the family of faith, I acknowledged how much I value the body of believers. I miss my brothers and sisters in Christ! But why is that? What creates a longing […]