Rooting for China

Rooting for China

For most of my life I have rooted against China.  I was born the same year the Chinese announced they had become members of the exclusive club of nations who can deploy nuclear weapons.  When I was a teenager, global sales of Mao Zedong’s Little Red...
Convictions

Convictions

When digital technology arrived in church offices towards the end of the 20th century, it launched a timesaving revolution with regard to mundane tasks like bulletin preparation.  It also provided some genuinely funny moments. One of them happened at a church that...
Blessed to Be a Blessing

Blessed to Be a Blessing

“Blessed to be a blessing.” That turn of phrase never actually appears on the pages of Scripture.  But it’s an accurate summation of God’s ongoing plan to rescue our broken world.  God will bless a particular individual, who will in turn become the conduit of God’s...
Facts and Opinions

Facts and Opinions

Philosopher J.P. Moreland remembers the time he was invited to speak at a gathering on the validity of faith. A friend gave him fair warning.  One of the guests, a man who was finishing up his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, was an outspoken skeptic of all things...
Seek, Knock, Ask

Seek, Knock, Ask

One hundred years ago, Dr. Albert Abrams was the most celebrated physician in the United States. He singlehandedly pioneered a revolutionary way of tackling illnesses and disease.  “The spirit of the age is radio, and we can use radio in diagnosis,” he declared. Thus...