I hadn’t intended on watching TV for most of the morning, but then saw as I was looking for a weather forecast that President George H.W. Bush’s funeral was being broadcast. Two-and-half hours later, I still don’t know how much rain is going to fall today. But my soul is enriched and my sense of [...]
I'm going to go out on a dangerous limb here. As I've watched the latest episode of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings unfold, involving the 11th hour revelations of alleged sexual misconduct as a high schooler, I'm wondering if we now have stretched the #metoo movement to its breaking point. What I'm going to say, I [...]
I heard this question asked recently in a discussion about the emotional health of clergy, precipitated by the tragic death of a well-known local preacher who took his own life. The question is tricky, because we know that a person can be spiritually healthy but physically unhealthy. If you're older, then your "outer self is [...]
In the first two days of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, more than 150 protesters have been removed from the proceedings for a variety of angry and audible outbursts. Texas senator John Cornyn described it as "mob rule". It's "unlike anything I've seen before in a confirmation hearing," he noted. That's because it is unlike [...]
My heart is so heavy today to learn of a young, well-known, well-loved pastor who took his own life this weekend. Andrew Stoecklein, 30, was the lead pastor of Inland Hills Church - just a few towns south of us in Chino, California - a thriving megachurch. I visited Inland Hills a couple of times, [...]
