Little things can affect dramatic change — good and bad — even if you’re unaware that any transformation is underway. If you walk into my kitchen, it might appear at times like a laboratory. Meg and I brew our own…
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Daddy by grace: An adoption insight
My Moses can be a fickle child. The other night he said in his singsongy, Luganda-tinged voice, “You are not my daddy.” It’s a funny thing to hear as an adoptive father. My response was funny too. It was a…
You get more of what you focus on
My son Fionn and I play the drive-time game Slug Bug. The idea, if you’re unfamiliar with it, is to identify as many Volkswagen Beetles as possible while out and about and thereby rack up points against your opponent. Right…
Tebow and the pay-for-proof-of-sex stunt
You know the song that runs, “Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket”? Try subbing out the word “Christian” for “star” and you’ve just identified one of the world’s favorite pastimes. The most recent manifestation of this…
Jesus comes to us so we can go for him
On the Sunday after Easter the Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates the encounter of the Apostle Thomas with the risen Jesus. You know the story. Skeptical about his fellow disciples’ enthusiastic claims of the resurrection, Thomas took a wait-and-see attitude, earning…
God’s mysterious methods
It’s easy to get frustrated at God and the way he appears to be ignoring our plans and prayers. But God’s ways are not, so Isaiah informs us, ours. And it’s interesting what can happen when we look back at…
