Interstate 69

Monday Morning, March 31, 2008
The north-south Indiana super-highway is familiar to us now.  It connects Indianapolis to Forth Wayne right through America’s heartland.  One farm after another, barns and silos, wheat and cornfields and dairy cattle line the highway.  All along the straight, interminable road are big ponds and unpaved roads among the full [...]

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An Observer Becomes A Player

March 24, 2008
We work hard to keep it comfortable.  We like predictable.  We design our lives to minimize the surprises.  Eliminate the conflict.  Avoid the accidents. 
But hard as we try, the unpredictable happens.  We are blindsided by the unplanned.  And often, it’s those intrusions on our highly detailed calendars that make all the difference.
Good Friday [...]

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An Open Letter to Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.

Monday Morning,  March 17, 2008
Dear Reverend Wright,
My guess is that by now your mail-box is filled with vitriol and “how dare you call yourself a Minister of the Gospel” and that sort of stuff.  It may well be that the diatribes unleashed since the video tapes of your sermons hit the Internet and the [...]

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Breakfast with a theologian

Mnday Morning, March 10, 2008
I got up before sunrise to breakfast with a bona fide, card carrying, published theologian.  I needed some counsel.  I was eager ask some key questions.  I read some of his stuff. His blog site intrigued me.  If it’s true that the way we think about God is the most [...]

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The Pew Findings

Monday morning, March 3, 2008
What has emerged from the think tank at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is as comprehensive a snapshot of religion in American life as ever produced.  The nation’s talking about it.  After sifting through a mountain of data, certain conclusions surfaced.  And they are making headlines.
I got [...]

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