Feb 19, 20132 minFaith The Homeless Man in My HouseLast summer I took a homeless man into my home for an overnight stay. His stench followed him up the stairs where he steamed up my...
Jul 22, 20122 minFaith"God is Good" and Other Annoying Things Church People Like to SayHave you ever noticed that when church people say, “God is good!” it’s often in the context of God doing something good for them? I got...
Jun 21, 20123 minReligions My Friends the Pagans “I want to start a group,” I told my friend one day. “A group for people who want to talk about God or gods, and spiritual-not-religious...
Jan 17, 20122 minFaithWhat a Proper Spiritual Fast Looks LikeWhen my pastor asked the congregation to join him in a prolonged fast, I was tempted to decline. Grace and freedom, you know—the stuff of...
Jan 13, 20122 minFaithThe Sermon on the Mount: a Brilliant Solution for Our TimesMatthew 5:1-16 (My Paraphrase) Blessed are those who know they have much more to learn than they have to teach, and who are more eager to...
Mar 23, 20112 minFaithThe Great Egg-Balancing Hoax (When People Believe What They Want to Believe)Perhaps you’ve done it—balanced an egg on its wide end sometime during the vernal or autumnal equinox. A friend of mine introduced this...