This article is from 2017 but reading it periodically helps me keep my bearings straight as a Christian writer. Martin Scorsese's critically praised passion project Silence - which tells the story of 17th-century Portuguese missionaries to Japan who experience the atrocities of a brutal governmental pogrom against Christianity - has largely received silence from the movie-going public, [...]
A man, his wife, and mother-in-law went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the mother-in-law passed away. An undertaker told them, “You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150.” The man thought about it and told the undertaker he would just have [...]
Watching the Republican party these past few weeks has reminded me of the old Donatist controversy. You remember that, don’t you? Way back in the 4th century, around the time of St. Augustine. What?! You haven’t heard of it? My goodness, what don’t they teach in school these days? Back in the last decade of [...]
It's "Bible Week" in my home church of Grace. We're encouraging our people to read the Bible daily for 15 minutes. If you don't have a Bible-reading regimen, then we encourage you to read the Gospel of Luke, so that you can watch and hear Jesus up close and in action. Before you turn into [...]
