News flash! President Obama did not cause the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I repeat: It is not the president’s fault! In light of Matt’s blog about the spill, particularly the lesson on unintended consequences, I think it’s important to point out t …

Recently, Barbara Nicolosi Harrington, a Hollywood screenwriter and professor at Pepperdine University, delivered a lecture at Focus on the Family on Christianity and the arts. She offered this definition of art: Art is something constructed that delig …

  The other day I was at Starbucks and a barista with whom I am Facebook friends asked me if I attended a certain church in town. Puzzled, I answered no. “Well, ” she said, “I noticed the pastor is our mutual friend.” Hmm. Here’s the problem: A) I …

I was on a plane yesterday. And so I grabbed for the nearest reading material, which happened to be Hemispheres Inflight Magazine. I began reading an article about the upcoming documentary Babies. Directed by Thomas Balmes, the film is already receivin …

The annual National Day of Prayer has been in the news a lot lately: rumors that the President was canceling it, a U.S. District Judge ruled that it’s unconstitutional, NDP Honorary Chairman Franklin Graham was disinvited from the Pentagon’s prayer ser …

I sometimes enjoy reviewing Twitter’s “trending topics,” just to get an unfiltered sense of what folks from a broad variety of cultures and backgrounds are thinking. “Without God” is currently among Twitter’s top 10 trending topics. Here are some of th …

In my church, like many others, we pray for various people in authority: Presidents, governors, legislators, and also church officials, including the president of the church body. And sometimes that’s easier than others. Sometimes I approve of what tho …

  The other day while I was roaming around the streets of Manhattan, I made a trip up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’ve been there before, and it’s always one of my places to go. In particular, I always love to go look at a sculpture they ha …