Posts with the category “current-issues”

This past summer, my church family blessed my family with a 10-week sabbatical. This means that I had zero pastoral responsibilities for over two months. I could write a monograph about the experiences we had and the lessons we learned, but I’ll table that for another time. Here, I simply want to highlight “twelve habits of rest” that we gleaned during the sabbatical.  Read More

But what about when the life of a woman is legitimately at stake in her pregnancy? What choice does a follower of Jesus have when a pregnancy threatens the life of the mother?  Read More

It wasn’t until I began to see just how far the American political landscape had trespassed their political boundaries (venturing into the ecclesiastical pulpit and hijacking biblical morality for their own political platforms) that I began to sense a growing need for faithful Christians to “get political” – with their pastors leading the way. Let me explain...  Read More

The world has become skillful when it comes to the game of hiding in the shadows - and so have we.  Read More

As an adult, I have watched many of my close friends walk away from the Christian faith they once professed. The cultural hashtag for this spiritual trajectory is “deconstruction”.  Read More