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

Every year in America, the creativity of new moms and dads is put on display on the maternity floors of local hospitals. Before newborns can be released to head home to the family, there’s a decision that will last a lifetime that must be made: what’s his/her given name going to be? Last year –

Americans voted on Tuesday; two candidates emerged from our abbreviated political primary campaign season with their positions on the national ballot secured, come next November. What was on the minds of the electorate as they threw their weight behind their preferred contender? Exit polls confirmed that, nationally, “the border” was the priority issue on the

Who was the greatest man ever born? If that was the grand-prize question on a Christian network, you would come up with the answer… and you would be wrong. “Jesus!” you say. Good guess… but, wrong. “Says who!” you ask. “Says Jesus,” I reply. If you’d like to debate him on that point, have at

I don’t know where you are this morning – as you open my weekly Point of View blog – but I don’t expect to see you at the barista counter at the Starbucks where I’m starting my day. Unless, of course, you’re in Las Vegas today, as I am… The world flocked to this desert

What will your kids choose to be when they grow up? That speculation may not get much outward airing over dinner with friends, but in the quiet moments when parents project their family into the future, it’s no small speculation. Here’s one layer of that prognostication: Will your kids grow up to be nuns? This

It was an innocent-enough question, posed in the last line of an email: “Do you have a favorite in the Super Bowl?” A “favorite?” George Commons started his three-year pilgrimage through The Master’s Program about 15 years ago in Chicago. From those 12 sessions, he integrated some new factors into his corporate leadership in the