Here we go again. Audrey Jarvis, a 19-year old student at Sonoma State University in California, was working for a campus organization when a supervisor told her to remove a […]

  We all know that the American flag has 50 stars and 13 red-and-white stripes, but it didn’t look like that in the beginning. The first American flag was dubbed the Continental […]

  Everyone has a mission statement nowadays. Even fast food places. Years ago, I found this corporate mission statement on the McDonald’s website: We’re not just a hamburger company serving […]

  “Faster than a speeding bullet…more powerful than a locomotive…able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! I have been a Superman fanatic since I was a burr-headed boy. […]

  Annual conference time is upon us, that season in the United Methodist church where clergy and lay delegates sweep in from all points of a defined geographical area to […]

  I’m a wanna-be outdoorsman. Though I’ve done my fair share of camping, fishing and hiking, I’m a greenhorn when compared to Munro baggers, volcano boarders and glacier cavers. I’m […]

  Last week I came across a slideshow of creepy abandoned churches across the United States. The pictures seem to be a metaphor for denominationalism across the United States, which is […]

  The Lady Is a Tramp She was a floozy, the kind of girl your mother warned you about and your dad might take a sneak peek at. She wore purple […]

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13, NIV) Today, on this National Day of Prayer, my mind went back to an […]

“The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch,” Acts 11:26 tells us–but musician Marcus Mumford declines the name, thank you very much. In an interview last month with Rolling Stone, the 26-year old […]