Monthly Archives: March 2011

The story of Abram’s call in Genesis 12 is short but plainly said:  Abram heard the Voice and answered. When he acted on the instructions from the Voice and obeyed, his life was transformed and the rest, they say, is … Continue reading →

In the season of Lent, what we don’t expect is to hear a word of good news. So let me frontload this Lenten meditation with good news, really good news:  We come to God not by our perfection but by … Continue reading →

It’s often said the airy heights of the mountaintop are enough to make mystics out of all of us. Perhaps it’s the exertion of the climb or just the way the world appears altered beyond its ordinariness. Once we have … Continue reading →

A few years back, James Dunn, feisty defender of the historic Baptist principle of the separation of church and state, bemoaned the adjective that came to be used to describe Baptists who had stepped away from the Southern Baptist Convention … Continue reading →