Don’t Touch That Ball!

Our niece Claudia is in Miami, getting ready for the Orange Bowl. She is a manager for the Jayhawks football team.
The last time the Jawhawks made it to the Orange Bowl was 1969, so this is a big event. Claudia‘s sisters and her mom and dad will be joining her for the [...]

A Setback

As far as I can tell, God’s favorite project is the human race.  I’m sure there are plenty of other things in the universe that interest him, but according to the testimonies of people who had an encounter with God, he has a personal investment in what happens on earth.  His project is that [...]

A Prayer from Bonhoeffer

I have begun posting over at Wellspring Bonhoeffer’s prayers he wrote in prison. The first was composed for Christmas, 1943, his first Christmas in prison. It is a Morning Prayer, one of a series written for himself and his fellow prisoners (at Wellspring, here).
Tomorrow I will write my thoughts about today’s tragic news.

Christmas Letter Concluded

We were snowed in a few days before Christmas, and I wasn’t able to get to my computer to complete the Christmas letter.  The thoughts are still worth reading even a couple days late.  View the second post below.

Christmas Letter continued . . .

I’m going to keep adding a brief paragraph a day to the Bonhoeffer Christmas letter. Each thought makes a good thought for the day, so be patient and enjoy it a little at a time. But keep coming back to the post below this one.

Bonhoeffer Christmas Letter

I have returned to posting excerpts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters on my Theological German blog, so I will share a few translations of the selections. The first is from a Christmas letter to his parents, written December 17, 1943.
Dietrich had been held for several months with no formal charges being made. He assumed [...]

Your Voice Matters

The worldwide outcry over the barbaric sentence imposed by a Saudi judge on a woman known as “the Qatif Girl” has made a difference. King Abdullah has “pardoned” the victim (whose sentence was more than doubled when she spoke out) as an act of benevolence and good will in preparation for the Haj (more [...]

My One Book List

1. One book that changed your life: 
In His Steps by Charles Sheldon.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
The Inferno by Dante Alleghieri

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Oxford Classical Texts edition of Homer, Iliad and Odyssey.

4. One book that made you laugh:
Love in the Time of Cholera by [...]

Small Steps

What can one person do? I don’t have any delusions that I can change the world. What I can do is make small choices every day that allow me to live with my conscience. I can take small steps in the direction of the change I would like to see. I [...]

A Little Help from My Friends

Here are a few “One Book” picks from some of my friends, and some of my friends’ friends. What are yours?

Zvaigznite’s books (artist)

1. One book that changed your life: Rachel and her Children by Jonathan Kozol
2. One book that you’ve read more than once: Gone with the Wind by Margaret [...]

The Clinton Hate Meme

(Warning: Some of what follows makes for unpleasant and disturbing reading. If you are faint-hearted, scroll down to the “One Book” post.]
Richard Dawkins created the meme–or at least the word and the concept. Dawkins is a geneticist by trade. His first bestseller is called The Selfish Gene. He believed that this [...]

One Book

Benjamin Meyers started this a year ago. What would your selection be in the following categories? I will post mine later.  Here are his:
1. One book that changed your life:
Augustine, Confessions (398 CE)

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1988)

3. One book you’d want on [...]