Forty-nine years ago this year, at Urbana 1976, Nancy and I signed a pledge to serve overseas as missionaries, if it was God’s will. (Actually, we signed it at midnight, […]
To this day, when I think back to my early “Christian Christmas,” I ponder what we as a family might do today to reach out to the poor and needy.
In colonial New England, towns were designed around a common area, with a “meeting house” usually at one end. The meeting house was just that: a building for meetings, both […]
Nancy and I were blessed to know a New Testament scholar during our season at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary who was both good and great. He was under-published for a seminary […]
Who I am today has been very much shaped by those who have been my mentors, by those who have gone before me.
God is love. God is holy. God is simple. I am complicated. The above four sentences, which I believe are true, help explain the dilemma we face as a society […]
Recently I was in Charlotte during a holiday and found no libraries were open where I could work on my PowerPoint for class. After 90 minutes in a third-place coffee […]
Very few people, in the course of pursuing education, get leadership training.
This fall I am teaching a course evangelism and discipleship in the local church. It is one of my favorite courses to teach, in part because it should be a core concern of every church.
Praying about the new school year, I have been reflecting on the purpose of education—whether formal or informal, theological or secular.