The natural state of things is to move toward chaos. That's entropy. Periodically in our house, my grip on the order of things begins to slip. Take th...
Karen and I watched "Born Into Brothels" last night, a documentary about the children of Indian prostitutes. The 60 million prostitutes in India have ...
One danger in writing these daily blogs is that it is easy to take pot shots at people. But how do you do that if you realize that you're pretty messe...
Abortion as a national discussion is too often abstract and polemical. Yesterday a life was saved in Los Angeles – that is real. When my coworker Ma...
Few things make me more uncomfortable than crying in front of other people. In private, especially in the dark, I'm OK. But I find it embarrassing in ...
“All men die, but how many truly live?” William Wallace asked in Braveheart. The paradox is that to live well, we must make our peace with death....
Karen and I celebrated 25 years of marriage in December. She’s been a great partner. We’ve shared so many adventures together. I’ve watched many...
The danger in America is that we become self-absorbed and miss God's heart for the poor that Bono pointed us to Isaiah 58 (in his address at the Natio...
To learn something, a coach really helps. A teacher may lay out the facts and the principles, a trainer may spell out the procedures, but it all comes...
As a junior in high school, my mom encouraged me to go on a two-month mission trip to Guatemala. That took a lot of effort on her part, because I was ...
