In the flesh

I never thought I’d be posting about the Sports Illustrated (SI) swimsuit issue, but it arrived in my mailbox a couple days ago (I’ve been an SI subscriber for more than 20 years and a reader for as long as I can remember) and it brought up a couple things...

Good Sabbath

Some quotes are so overused as to render them, well, useless, but the quote that says that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is one that still holds some truth for me. (An aside: I just learned today that it’s...

Prayer in schools

The headline may be a little misleading. I won’t be pontificating about that issue per se, but instead I’m reprinting a blog post from my kids’ school. I, along with three of Urban Village’s musicians, led a worship service there a couple weeks...

Predestination

The word conjures up lots of different opinions/feelings on God’s omniscience and omnipotence but I just read an interesting definition that I like. This is from the biblical scholar J. Clinton McCann, Jr. (with a name like that, could he be anything other than...

SAD for snow

I know Seasonal Affective Disorder is typically referenced when people miss the sun during winter. But I’m wondering, is there such a thing as feeling a bit out of sorts when there’s too much warmth in the winter? Is it possible to miss snow and cold?...