Thy Grace is Sufficient

This is what beautiful sounds like.

Brian McClaren has a new book , which I have just finished reading. I have been interested in the things Mr. McClaren has had to offer over ...

Since what is in George Will's mind is far more interesting than what is typically inside my head, I will give you some highlights from ...

I have two daughters. This is very important to me. Watch it. Then, go read this book . Its a very important book you really must read, if ...

What things would you do....if you knew you only had months to live? And, would your station in life dictate what you could or would do? Wou...

Today's LA Times has an interesting, fair, and thoughtful article on The New Monastics . I found this article interesting and refreshing...

After a painful basketball loss to USC earlier this week, I need something to cheer myself up. I got it, and in short order. It seems that ...

Get ready. This could be amazing.

At left, above the "Big Dig". I feel like a man from the land of plastic architecture. Disneyland. Suburban Instant Utopia - just ...

What a fascinating place to live. The entire culture in Washington DC is so strongly oriented to revolve around the political, military, dip...

Greetings from our nation's capital. After about 28 hours in lovely Miami, I am now spending about 45 hours in Washington DC. I looked ...

Here I am in Miami Beach. Not much time to explore around, as I have a 9:30 PM flight to Washington DC tomorrow. Up in the morning to look ...

Today, I leave on a five day trip, four flights, three cities. I don't usually travel like a road warrior, so I will attempt to blog my ...

Rob Bell is a pastor of Mar's Hill Church in suburban Grand Rapids, Michigan. He says things that might make church people mad. Like t...

Ok. I am flummoxed. I just found out that I made the list (mind you the bottom of the list, rather fitting...) for one of the best posts o...

Recently, during the same interview I mentioned the other day on American Public Radio, Jean Vanier spoke of power, of the handicapped givi...

"The universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper a Lord's supper, every work the fulfillment...

Jean Vanier is a most amazing man, who, indirectly has affected the lives of two of my close friends, as well as a far more expansive effo...

About 12 days ago, we pulled the kids out of school and spent the day at Disneyland. Just the four of us, as a family. It was very fun to be...

This is the twilight sky out our back door, looking west. It has been a full and happy Holiday Season for us. I would show more photos of ...

I have just discovered a wonderful Christmas movie, and it only took me 49 years to find it. The Bishop's Wife , produced in 1947, i...

We Americans are a completely nutty bunch, and I have found evidence of this at a lovely seasonal web site known as Tacky Christmas Yards ....

And I was going to watch SportsCenter ....... But something else happened. I watched a choir. Now mind you, I am not a huge choir aficionad...

Please note my Buzz Lightyear score to the left. Then go here , and note the pathetically wimpy score of a fellow who has attended Princeto...

The caption for this video at Youtube reads: "Excerpt from "Carols from Prague": Performed by the Choir of Christ Church Cath...

I just needed to share this. I had a bike exactly like this when I was 11 years old. Complete with stick-shift and shock absorber. Now, I dr...

We purchased the Christmas tree yesterday, and had brief moments of happy family togetherness. Shown here are Nancy and I mimicking the phot...

Water polo. Alabama. 8 th grade. The Big Apple. Softball. Soccer. Ordination. Considering private school. Junior year, college ahead. A los...

This year I have realized, perhaps in a clearer way, that Christmas is all screwed up. By this, I mean our American version of Christmas, wh...

Its Christmas time. Advent. A time of expectation. But what are we expecting? There are lots of souls this Christmas who have very little...

For more that a decade, "In The Bleak Midwinter" has been one of my favorite carols. I love this song both for its stirring descri...

I want this man to teach my kids. I will take passion over conformity any day.

This past Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent. I did not give it much thought, until much later in the day. My wife and I are in the mids...

Reality has returned. The sun again rises in the east, and just as winter means colder weather, SC has again beat UCLA. For those of you con...

Change is in the air, and it is a welcome thing. The other day I opened the Wall Street Journal and spotted a full page ad, pictured at lef...

This painting hangs over the fireplace in our family room; it has been there since we added the family room on to our house, almost six yea...

The following was written in the depths of the Civil War; the greatest war in American history. More than 3 million fought - 600,000 died. I...

The other night I took a long walk in the fog, and listened on my Ipod to this conversation . Listening while walking felt like moving into...

I have been labeled! It seems that the fine, handsome, well-groomed, and upstanding people at The High Calling in Texas have decided that I ...