In a recent Deep Conversation episode, Travis spoke with Trevin Wax who said that we are in a moment where there’s a lot of rot in the Church. I grew up helping my dad work around the house on projects from framing walls to building furniture. I learned the danger of rot in a hurry. […]
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These days racial issues feel as if they are always front and center. In some ways this is decidedly good news, in others it can be beyond wearying. George Yancey captures the current sentiment when he says Many of us are tired of fighting the same racial battles over and over again. We are tired […]
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I am a pretty conservative sort of a guy. Chances are you took that politically because in our world the political is everything—the “really real”, the place and space where all the important things happen. But that’s not what I meant. I mean temperamentally. I am not a risk taker. I like the familiar. Simple […]
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“How did we get to place culturally where the statement ‘I am a woman trapped in a man’s body’ is universally understood as both coherent and meaningful?” (19) asks historian and professor of biblical and religious studies Carl Trueman in his recent book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Trueman says that less than […]
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They say water is the most powerful force on earth. It erodes coast lines, carves canyons, can overwhelm the land in floods and tsunamis. But there is another way, a less obvious way, in which water is powerful. It nourishes life. We see the power of the Amazon or the Mississippi River but sometimes we […]
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The land is parched. We are withered and in desperate need of water but there is no end to the drought in site, relief seems impossible. We turn this way and that, looking for water. But what little we can find is tainted. What life we see is sickly, gasping and yellow. Rainbows slide across […]
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