A Pilgrim's Journal

To demonize a person or collection of people is to think of them as evil. Putting others in that category seems to justify negative...

Unbelievers love to say the church is full of hypocrites. There’s some truth to it, albeit a half-truth. Hypocrisy, like all sin, is...

If you aren't thoroughly convinced, then God help you Orthodox Judaism has traditionally discouraged non-Jews from converting to the...

Being an old, white guy in America isn’t exactly a reason to celebrate these days. Each dawn brings new reminders of what’s been lost:...

Jesse jumps for joy on Hawaii's Big Island. The news hit like a bucket of cold water to the face. Our thirty-two-year-old son, Jesse, was...

Photo by Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash Christianity’s many detractors tend to fall into two camps: those who think it is pure nonsense...

NASA Image of Saharan dust cloud blowing toward the Americas The world and everyone in it are closely connected in ways we seldom...

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Jesus described the dimensions of a realm that both thrilled and shocked his listeners, depending on...

The United Nations has designated June 20th to be World Refugee Day. Nearly 80 million people from diverse regions around the globe fall...

Photo courtesy Christy McGuffey For starters, if you think race is real, then you are part of the problem. Most social scientists now...

Detail of East Window, Lincoln Cathedral, England — Wikimedia Commons. As COVID-19 rips its way through the social and economic fabric of...

Photo by Nathan Dumla -Unsplash. Ever notice how quiet it gets when someone mentions God in public? Say someone prays out loud in a...

Photo by Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash Religious language is a strange bird. It conveys more than we might imagine. We tend to analyze one...

What would the apostles (or even Jesus) look like if they existed today? They might be part social misfit and part glowing with God’s...

Is there such a thing as Christian culture? If so, what does it look like in America today? If one thinks of culture as behaviors and...

When Going to Church is a Sin Sometimes religious folks can get pretty scary. That’s the case now as some churches defy orders to avoid...

For the first time in a very long while, America has been driven to its knees. The props we normally rely on to give us our false sense...

Some years back Christians found themselves in the media’s fickle but intense spotlight when faith-based environmentalists lobbied...

Just over a year ago, my wife and I lost our 32-year old son to malaria he contracted on a mission trip to Africa. In the aftermath of...