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13 mins read|03/17/16By Philip Melanchthon (from the 1535 Loci Communes), translated by Scott L. Keith, Ph.D., edited by Kurt Winrich
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19 mins read|02/09/16Surely everyone reading at one time or another in their lives has heard the popular phrase I’m writing about today.
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6 mins read|02/03/16Whether we are overcome by happiness on the mountaintop or overwhelmed by sorrow in the valley, our vision can be our greatest handicap.
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11 mins read|01/29/16We chase after status, wealth, luxury, glory, honor, youth, beauty, and pleasure. We work ourselves to death. For what?
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10 mins read|01/26/16It's a January day in New York City and the building I work in is just off the water. What this means is that it's cold out and not just cold but cold with a biting wind. As the phrase goes, "you can feel it in your bones."
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8 mins read|01/23/16As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.
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10 mins read|01/20/16There are so many reasons why the Good News is such good news; but, for me, one near the top of the list is the relief of being able to tell the truth. It is so refreshing to be given permission to ‘call a spade a spade.
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6 mins read|01/06/16A star appears in the East. A spotlight over its Creator. A single constellation bows over that Light of Light from whom darkness flees.
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1 min read|01/05/16Ah, the New Year. It’s the stuff of resolutions. To be better. Do better. Live more healthful. And yet, year after year, we never quite change as much as we hope. Entropy is still a scientific fact.
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14 mins read|12/30/15There are so many paradoxes that we can appreciate as we seek to grasp more of the meaning of the miracle of Christmas.
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11 mins read|12/04/15As I remember these stories of the other side of Christmas—where it’s not a wonderful life, where there’s no joy to the world, where silent nights are interrupted by screams and sobs and cursing and gunshots—I remember that this other side of Christmas is precisely why there is a Christmas in the first place.
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