The Gospel according to the Spa (and Oprah)
My wife and I entered the spa. The music was mellow, the colors were bright, the attendants spoke in a soft voice. We could see the city’s skyscrapers and confusion […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
“For thine is the story…”
My nearly three-year old daughter has a beautifully illustrated version of the Lord’s Prayer that we read almost every night. She piously folds her little hands and says the words […]
On Missions, Missionaries, and Proselytizing
Again, if God, like Jupiter in the comedy, should, on awaking from a lengthened slumber, desire to rescue the human race from evil, why did He send this Spirit of […]
The Politics of Redemption
If you are entertained by politics, like me, or similarly by sports, there is nothing more fascinating than to see someone rise. A mom-and-pop store owner who becomes mayor, a […]
Norway, the Harlem Shake, and the Bible
By now you’ve probably seen and forgotten the viral video craze that was the Harlem Shake. Unless you’ve been living in an Internet-less cave for the last 6 months, which […]
The End of Virtue
Why are we often suspicious of virtue? Why are we cynical and skeptical of people who are supposedly good, kind, even heroic? That’s just the image they project–we reason–but behind […]
Get Some Sabbath
I like to think that my body is holding up pretty well, given that it hasn’t had much sleep since our third child was born last November. “Sleep when the […]
Driven to Distraction
When I first moved to a big city, it took a bit of time get used to public transit. For a prairie boy accustomed to wide open spaces, it was […]
