I have a great appreciation for artists; some of my best connections are with people who are, to their core, amazing creatives. But my need for transparency demands my honest confession: I love having artists as friends and appreciate their unique personhood, but I feel like a Baptist pastor at a wine tasting party when […]

What does it take to get the crowd behind you? Leaders across history have addressed that challenge – across continents and cultures – for millennia, since Noah’s family disembarked. How do you manage to get people to raise their heads above the continuum and hold their focus for the future? One answer with consistent impact:

  Let me say this at the top of this Monday installment of my Point of View: I’ve mastered the art of calling out BFOs. Lay that acrostic in front of an electronics engineer, and their light goes on: that’s a Beat-Frequency Oscillator that generates a constant sine wave at a frequency that is offset

The next few weeks will pull us all into focus, on the family. Moms will get the shout-out on May 12th; dads will be similarly celebrated a month later, on June 16th. Meanwhile, students will end their year of academic emphasis while graduates among them will mark the completion of a stage of study that

America is currently in a highlight funk. Football season ended with the Super Bowl. Baseball season is just getting into its groove. No fireworks until the Fourth of July. Mixed Martial Arts – MMA – has created a parallel phenomenon called the Presidential Election, and it’s the championship battle that will run until November 5,

What a week! My Monday missives are written with the intent to create conversations about things that are happening around us, in real time… and to found those interactions on a shared commitment to a biblical worldview. This has been an extraordinary week of action… My initial inclination was to focus attention on Scottie Scheffler’s

Last Monday was an epic moment; the real-time of the solar eclipse was about five minutes – depending on where you were standing in relationship to the positions of the sun and the moon – but millions of people organized their day around catching a glimpse of the phenomenon that will not recur in the

Big Events the last couple of weeks for the shrinking-minority of Americans who self-identify as “followers of Jesus” (we used to use the term “Christian,” but we haven’t done a very good job of protecting that brand of late). The annual revisitations of Palm Sunday and Easter are now past; what do we take from

Football fans hit their peak the second Sunday of February; there are bowl games aplenty, but there’s only one Super Bowl. Attention is riveted to the field – or the screens – for 60 minutes, plus time-outs, halftime and commercial breaks as the battle for victory consumes the weekend for millions. Christian churches hit their

There were no little kids with palm fronds – wearing bathrobes and cotton-ball beards stuck to their chins – when the Carpenter from Nazareth rode that donkey into the Eastern Gate of the city, the first day of Passover Week in the 1st Century. Did you see them yesterday, at church? The crowds were going