I moderate several webcasts every month.  This entails getting on a conference bridge and logging into a web console where I can click through a presentation, chat with other presenters and manage a question queue.  I was supervising a video shoot this morning in Boondocky, RI -- so I had to use a "guest office" at the client's headquarters to do ( Read more... )

I formally resigned the leadership position I held with the local ministerium for the past decade or so.  My travel schedule simply doesn't allow me to fulfill those duties any more.  And it's anyway time to see if anyone else is willing to step up to the plate.

Stuck on the tarmac at O'Hare, waiting for clearance to take off. It has been a long week.

“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” -John 8:36

We are not free. If and when we are not in denial, we have an innate sense-and plenty of empirical evidence-that we are not free. Our fears, prejudices, resentments, misconceptions and self-centeredness hold us back from being fully what we know we ought to be. Jesus calls ( Read more... )

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” -Matthew 5:5

The purpose of this post is to highlight two problematic ways of reading scripture to which, in my experience, many of us are vulnerable - and to offer what I believe is a doctrinally more appropriate approach.

Legalism. Like it or not, this is an approach that many of us ( Read more... )

There is a certain kind of person who claims to be highly rational and who -- when you closely examine their beliefs -- holds to the position that one can only truly know that which the instrumentation we create can discover, measure or otherwise confirm ( Read more... )

Work quickly
Before the brush dries

I was both amused and appalled by T. M. Luhrmann’s column on the “The Benefits of Church” in this past Sunday’s Times. I was amused because Luhrmann plainly assumes that the only alternative to the “material and observable” is “imagination”-a loaded term that suggests a wholly subjective and idiosyncratic mode of thought ( Read more... )

Science is the sub-discpline of good religion that studies the handiwork of the divine.

Yale wins the NCAA men's hockey national championship. Boola boola!