Everyone say it together now: “Thank you, Tiger Woods!”
I have lately tended to avoid blogging on such stories as this, but yesterday began to think of all the hoopla that has followed from Tiger’s car accident from a different angle.
One of the things I try to keep constant on this blog is looking at and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘christian culture’
December 15, 2009
Tiger’s Christmas Gift to Us
December 7, 2009
Brand Loyalty
I don’t usually think of myself as particularly brand-loyal. Something I did this weekend has me thinking otherwise.
Rachel and I were in Arlington for my parent’s 50th anniversary, and, upon checking into the hotel Thursday night, realized we had forgotten to bring toothpaste. I went on a quick quest for toothpaste.
As I pulled into the [...]
December 3, 2009
More Effective Preaching in Central Texas
Preaching in the Central Texas Conference has been weighed and found wanting. So says Bishop Mike Lowry.
As a consequence, all the clergy in the Waco District received an email a month or so ago about our attendance being required at a workshop on preaching.
I was insulted at first. Not only do I think I am [...]
November 30, 2009
Love v. Control
Surprise! Ben Bernanke thinks the Fed ought to maintain control over banking.
Like many of my posts, this one is not actually about the topic with which I open. Well, at least not the obvious one.
I do not, for present purposes, care what the role of the Federal Reserve is in regulating banking.
I want, instead, to [...]
November 23, 2009
Will God Save Every Person?
I just started into Gulley & Mulholland’s book If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person. I have to tell you, I’m skeptical. I have borrowed a copy of this book. My mother-in-law asked me a couple of months ago what I thought of this book, and then she offered me a copy [...]
November 3, 2009
Giving Advice
I am in a sometimes awkward position of having an adolescent child while I work with a couple hundred adolescents.
Professionally, I think I am pretty good at what I do. I have the skills, the passion, and the dedication to keep me level-headed (for the most part) and consistent. I communicate well with adolescents (generally); [...]
October 28, 2009
Finding Identity-Thinking Ethnically
I have trouble dealing with ethnicity. It isn’t that I have trouble dealing with people who have an ethnicity. No, my problem, like that of very many of us, is that Anglo-Americans have generally grown up without any ethnicity. In fact, I would argue that the American Myth is that the only identity or ethnicity [...]
October 22, 2009
Maybe Jesus was a carpenter…
We went around the table, each of us sharing something we got from the devotional that had just been read. Toward the end, most of us settled into repeating something like: “Take your problems to God; God can solve any problem.”
The final girl said, almost under her breath, “God can’t solve every problem.”
Without thinking, almost [...]
October 7, 2009
Blame
It is NOT my fault. I didn’t get the email.
Wasn’t that someone else’s responsibility?
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,* to the unquenchable fire.* 45And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut [...]
October 6, 2009
We’re all Users
I’m reading Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint’s Come on People: on the path from Victims to Victors. On p. 32 they write:
One way slaves survived such brutal conditions was to turn the Christianity they had learned into a liberation theology. The stories of the Hebrew slaves became their own. Even as slave owners used the [...]





