Posts tagged “Culture”
Why so few Christians?
When I was kid, about nine in ten Americans claimed to be Christian. Now that I’m middle-aged, only six in ten Americans stand with…
The hidden force behind violence . . . And what you can do about it
I’ll never forget where I was on April 20, 1999. I was a sophomore in high school and had just finished golf practice. My…
The allure of screens
The book of Proverbs, written around three thousand years ago, doesn’t say much about tablets and TikTok, but it can teach us wisdom with…
The blessing of technology
If you see modern technology as a bad thing and not a blessing, consider this—before there were screens, there were scrolls. And we know…
Your screen and your soul
Technology is a tension, isn’t it? Families feel this when they FaceTime siblings two states away … and when they sit in the same…
Evil is real. But so is God.
From naivety to naming evil In 1978 renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck published The Road Less Traveled. The book was a massive success, selling…
Be a body double!
Shoji Morimoto was fired in 2018. His boss noted that Shoji lacked initiative and accused him of “not doing anything.” Well, Morimoto turned “not…
Grievances
It didn’t take too long after sin entered the world for people to start harboring grievances. Cain killed his brother Abel because Cain was…
The end of “fake news”
Are you as tired as I am of hearing the term fake news? It seems we’ve been bombarded with this idiom ever since the…
Soul reform
In the wake of each tragic school shooting, our country debates whether to have restrictions on the ownership of assault weapons. Second Amendment legalists…
Pro (every) life meets financial needs
According to a 2004 Planned Parenthood survey, 23% of abortions happen for financial reasons. Medical bills, then diapers, then formula, then two decades of…
A walk in my shoes
When I was little, I loved putting on my mom’s high-heeled shoes and imagining I was a grown-up. I remember looking out the car…