Category: Culture
“Are We On for Tomorrow?”
“Hey, do you want to get together next week?” “Sounds good. Let’s connect in a few days to figure it out.” …a few days later… “So, will Wednesday work?” “Probably. Let me check on...
What you should know about the brief wondrous career of Aaron Schock
Seven years ago, Aaron Schock was positively chipper. At 27 years old, he was the youngest representative elected to Congress — and the first congressman born in the 1980s. He wore pastel ties and overused...
You Can’t Fix It
It must be one of the worst feelings in the world to watch from the street as a building burns, or to watch from the shore as a ship sinks. You think, If only I...
The Church Stays Relevant not by CONFORMING, but by REFORMING
Rob Bell was only pointing out what so many think is obvious in remarks that have caused Christians of all stripes to hurry to their ramparts. He offered his opinion on the Church’s “inevitable” about face...
The Crusades, Haters, and Skipping the Key Word
It’s amazing how some folks are more prepared to defend the Crusades than acknowledge that the President of the United States had a point. I’ve sat in years and years of history, political science, and...
Jackie Robinson West: We are all guilty
No one escapes punishment. It finds us all, young or old. It just seems sadder that our beloved little league baseball team, darlings in grass-stained uniform, have fallen under the sledgehammer of greed and the...
Killing Eden
Sometimes I think my favorite animal is the buffalo. Really, it’s grizzly bears, but whenever I see a picture of a buffalo it crosses my mind that, Hey, maybe that furry, dumb, humongous-headed thing really...
Divided Loyalties: Christians Riding Bumper Cars
My undergraduate thesis was an attempt to tie together my majors, international relations and social psychology. I looked at identity (as a social psychological concept) among members of non-state actors (a popular category in IR)....
Foreign policy in 4 years of State of the Union addresses
Syria – “Assad is on the way out… well, unless he’s not” 2012 (1 mention): “And in Syria, I have no doubt that the Assad regime will soon discover that the forces of change cannot...
Scars
He showed me the spot where the bullet went in. It didn’t look exactly the way it looks in the movies. It looked webby, gnarly, like tree roots. It was a rise, not a depression....