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

It’s called the Lowsman Banquet; the 2022 annual re-enactment on June 20th, 2022 was the 47th assembly in Newport Beach to celebrate the most unlikely of honorees. Weeks before, no one would have known the name of the Man of the Hour; today, he’s one of the hottest celebs on the planet. What gives? Paul

Nearly 40 years ago, David W. Smith – former suburban school superintendent in Chicago, frequent ministry speaker, prolific author of 60+ books – detected a widespread malady and exposed it in his landmark book, The Friendless American Male. Has the situation stabilized, or is it worse? “According to a recent American Survey report, men have

  Let’s play a little cultural history trivia game. Here’s a roster of quirky but endearing people whom you probably invited into your home late in the last century: Sam. Carla. Cliff. Norm. Frasier. Woody. Phil. Rebecca. Diane. Lilith. Ernie. I have no prize to offer if you’ve figured them out. Who are these folks?