Lead on, Oklahoma City?

73 years ago yesterday, July 16, 1935, the first parking meters anywhere went to work in OKC.
Perhaps one wouldn’t expect such a novel concept and excellent revenue stream to be born in Oklahoma City.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an interesting piece for the New Yorker about big ideas and change. Apparently big, revolutionary ideas are not particualrly [...]

John 14 and Exclusivism

John 14:6 is one of the most cited verses in favor of Christian claims of exclusivism. The passage reads, “Jesus said to them,’I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.’”
The context is significant; Thomas has just suggested that they (the disciples) didn’t know [...]

Deli Music

Just ate lunch at the Olde Towne Deli in Nacogdocches. They’re playing country music, which struck me as odd for a deli.

week in review

I haven’t posted much this week. Between preparing for mission trip and beginning the process of assimilating two new staff, I haven’t felt like writing.
Okay, more exactly, I haven’t felt I had the time to focus on blogging. How much focus/thought should blogging require?

Goods and Problems

My father-in-law sent me this article from the Boston Globe.  Here is the key paragraph, at least by my judgment:
Poverty and wealth, by this logic, don’t just fall along a continuum the way hot and cold or short and tall do. They are instead fundamentally different experiences, each working on the human psyche in its [...]

What direction are we going?

Andy at ThinkChristian asks “Is our culture on a downward moral slide?“
One question this begs (see my most recent post) is what does one mean by “our”?  Do Christians include ourselves in the larger culture in which we live, or do we define this away and try to explain ourselves in terms of a “Christian [...]

At least we aren’t burning them out anymore….

My friend Adam Moore shares this about it being legal to shoot homeless people in Waco.

Believer(s)

What does it mean to be a “believer”?
We (Christians) use lots of different terms to identify ourselves, and to distinguish us from others. One of the most common of these is to call Christians or followers of Jesus “believers.” So, what do we mean by this?
Surely we mean more than the generic “belief in [...]

40

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
                 -U2 Pride (In the Name of Love), 1984
40 years ago this morning, MLK Jr. was shot and killed.  Leonard Pitts has an excellent piece about this [...]

Daily Devotion

I opened my Bible this morning while considering postponing the devotional time until later in the day. “No,” I told myself, “just sit down, open it up, read something, meditate a moment, then you can move on.”
I opened to Daniel 1. I really didn’t feel like dealing with apocalyptic literature this morning. [...]