An Open Letter to My Latin-Curious Daughter Dear Julia, Let me start out this letter by telling you that I love you very much. I could never love you more than I do and there’s nothing you could do that cause me to love you less. Sure, there were moments […]
The Beauty of the Bride
The Beauty of the Bride Sir Francis Galton was a British statistician and eugenics theorist who lived in the late 1800’s. Among his many theories was the idea that what made someone’s face attractive was the average-ness of their features. In other words, the closer the measurements of facial features […]
Unity
Unity A great thing about being Generation-X is the kinds of movies we grew up with. In my humble opinion, the 1980’s was a peak era for cinema. But while the rest of the world ooh’d and ahh’d at films like E.T. and Gandhi, there was a another move that […]
Spiritual Paranoia
Spiritual Paranoia Sometimes I’ll make reference to the term spiritual paranoia as something I occasionally experience. But what do I mean by it? By spiritual paranoia, I’m referring to a vague and lingering distrust of the institutional church. Of course, you won’t it on any list of psychological disorders. I’ve […]
Why We Gather: Part III
Why We Gather: Part III Over the last two posts, we’ve discovered why the church gathers. In Part I, we examined several prototypical models of the Christian gathering. In Part II, we zoomed into the New Testament to examine common themes important to the assembly in the first century. Putting […]
Why We Gather: Part II
Why We Gather: Part II Welcome to the second in a series of articles written to explore and uncover the purpose of the Christian gathering. In the previous article, we started by exploring four prototypical forms of the church—the Trinity, human social design, the Synagogue, and the Greek legislative assemblies. […]