Remaining Faith and the Football Pot
I played Jr. High Football. I am not sure why. Maybe it was because I wanted to be as cool as my team captain brother Cary or as skilled as my play making brother Craig. I was neither. I was too clumsy to be a star like Craig and to [...]

The normally 14-hour drive from Spokane to Sacramento took us 16. We stopped a lot to see if she would potty. She couldn’t. We were both too nervous.
The Chevy I rented had plenty of room for her once the backseats were folded down. In spite of this she insisted on leaning her heavy body up [...]

Forgive my departure from campus ministry and family update into the political for a moment please. Christian author, liberal activist and pastor Brian Mclaren has written An Open Letter to Conservative Christians in the U.S., on Health Care that has me thinking.

He makes the point that Christians are called to civil and [...]

Charles Wesley was a 20-year-old college student when the Methodist revival began. Pioneering missionary Hudson Taylor was 21 when he climbed aboard a boat for China. Conversely, the father of all anti-supernatural philosophers, David Hume, embraced his convictions at age 18 and Joseph Stalin left seminary and dedicated his life to the communist cause at [...]

In 1988 when we first came to California we often prayed for favor. Back then almost no one here could even pronounce the words Chi Alpha, let alone understand what we did on campus. All that has changed today. We are getting more speaking engagements, emails, phone calls than we can manage. Some days is [...]