Point of View

George Bernard Shaw wasn’t being complimentary when he observed: “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” Given the choice between those conditions, it’s better to know nothing than to think you know everything.

George Bernard Shaw wasn’t being complimentary when he observed: “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” Given the choice between those conditions, it’s better to know nothing than to think you know everything.

If you’re a football fan, this is a big week in your annual calendar. It’s the kind of “got to” that makes adjustments to many of the other steady commitments that define the rest of your year, which step-aside to make space for the epic exception.

So: who gets to call themselves “Christian?” There were no brand consultants offering their counsel to the early generations of the Jews who had become part of the belief movement that had been dubbed The Way:

“I have a dream…”
If your default historical horizon is biblical, your search presents Joseph as “The Dreamer” whose life became the basis for more verses in Genesis than Abraham, Isaac, or his father, Jacob.

For decades, my travels had put me in overnight spots that ranged from cushy to chaotic. We had stayed in some of the world’s best hospitality environs, and we had also been in places where UN Peacekeepers were sleeping in the next block. Four years ago today, I woke up with a familiar conscious reaction: