Pope Francis has reopened the conversation on Christians and creation care.  But that’s not a new topic for evangelicals, even if we’ve been a bit forgetful as of late. I […]

At Seedbed, I deal with misplaced priorities and misplaced anger. Read it here.

The United Methodist Church continues to limp along with a crutch of a pastoral assignment system that may ensure it will never vigorously run again.  I discuss my own personal […]

Today at First Things (here), I compare the recent work of Pope Francis with the life’s work of Wendell Berry.  It seems they have been drinking from the same well.

Eggs are in the news with millions of factory farmed birds dead.  When things go bad in industrial agriculture, they go bad in a big way. Perhaps, we can now […]

Completing the post-vacation catch up . . . Perhaps, it was wise to leave the Lone Star State after venturing some reluctant criticism of our favorite ice cream at The […]

Catching up a bit after a great family vacation in Colorado.  Before I headed for the mountains, I compared Bruce Jenner and Into the Wild focus Chris McCandless at Seedbed (later […]

Is Pope Francis a pedophile communist?  I leave that part of the story alone, but I do note and comment on another aspect of the latest heated Vatican criticism coming from […]

How do we move from a red/blue divide to green for all?  One step is knowing our history and the true witness of our faith.  Read the full article at […]

I shared some thoughts on John Muir with an online magazine called Shout!  The questions I actually answered were a bit different from how they are presented now, but they […]