Admittedly, I'm not a fan of country music. I often think of Bob Newhart's joke about it: "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to 'put down.'"

I don't even know who Charley Crockett is. But I recently saw a qu...

When was the last time you heard the phrase "All lives matter?"

My wife and I noticed we don't hear it as much these days, and couldn't remember the last time we'd seen it (although I still see numerous U.S. flag stickers with a blue line).

It was only a few years ago that the phrase "All lives ma...

I don't normally do movie reviews, but after numerous people asked me what I thought of Wake Up Dead Man, I figured I should give it a watch. It's my first Knives Out movie, so I wasn't sure what I was getting into. When the movie begins with a young priest (Father Jud) who is reassigned to work wit...

A couple of my kids have gotten into a new toy called a Bitzee. If you're unfamiliar with this latest fad, it's a digital pet or character you take care of. When I was a child, we had something similar in the form of the Tamagachis. One of my kids is taking care of dogs while another has dinosaurs. ...

Naming your child after someone you know carries a significant weight.

I was reading through Luke's genealogy record recently (those verses that everyone loves) and one name in particular stood out to me. Luke's version focuses on a genealogy through Joseph to Jesus, and it runs through King David'...

I've been reading an advanced copy of Diana Butler Bass' upcoming book, A Beautiful Year (accompanying podcast episode coming soon!). In it, she offers an insight into first-century fishing that I hadn't heard before.

In ancient Rome, you didn’t work for yourself. You didn’t scroll through LinkedIn...

Somewhere along the way, Christians started singing, preaching, and declaring a mantra that sounds pious on the surface but is actually deeply destructive: “We don’t deserve God’s love.” I hear it regularly in worship services. But let’s pause and ask the obvious question:

Why don't we deserve God’...

The Apostle Paul once wrote to the church in Rome about food.

At that time, some believers felt free to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols, while others were convinced this was sinful. It was the same church community gathered because of the same gospel, but it was producing two wildly diff...

Recently I've heard that people on the left are more intolerant of differing opinions than people on the right. And here’s the thing: I actually think that’s true. But not for the reasons you might think. 

Let me explain.

If you set a left-leaning society next to a right-leaning society, something...

When the ancient Jews were building the Temple of God, they had a unique restriction on how they handled the stones for it. "The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site" (1 Kings 6:7)....