Category: Praxis

News item today got me thinking: a ten year old girl was disturbed because she observed a man a the Seattle public library watching pornography the a library computer. The librarian was apparently sympathetic when the parent...

[caption id="attachment_3742" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Ideas should be treated like cats"][/caption] I hope I'm not one of those ivory tower guys who loves to play around with ideas that never touch down on the...

From what little I've seen of the Occupy Wall Street movement  and it's humble little brother, Occupy Bellingham, I'm not terribly impressed.  I don't disagree with the stated goal of addressing corporate greed and its...

There was some minor buz recently about how evangelical leaders were not invited to participate in 9/11 memorial events. One was an interfaith prayer vigil at the Washington Cathedral regarding which, A representative of...

Natural Guitar Tuning The other day I was at a group guitar lesson with my daughter, Autumn, and I was showing her how to tune her guitar. No, I wasn't showing her how to line up the meter up on an electronic tuner. I was...

Tonight I had dinner in Honduras in the company of three Argentines, one Swiss, a Dane (I almost said Danish) and a Honduran, who all work in various Christian ministries. We got into a very interesting discussion about...

NOTE: My friend Hefer, from Puebla mexico, had an experience that looked a lot like something I wrote about here. He sent me this account, which shows that truth is stranger than blogging (thank you, Hefer!). I was on the...

A few years back an alumnus of my school, a pastor, killed his wife in a domestic dispute.  I remember very clearly the description of a phone call between him and one of the professors who had been close to the couple. The...

In my previous ironically titled post "Why theology doesn't matter" I said that it actually does. It provides the structure, the context and the content of the Christian faith. You may say, "No way man. I just believe what the...

Roxana is a 13 year old girl living in Antigua, Guatemala. She lives in a very poor neighborhood and has no prospects for advancement. But Roxana wanted to go to cooking school and through a fortuitous set of circumstances she...