Total number of equivocal evangelical clichés in a sermon I heard recently: 4.  This kind of thing drives me slightly batty.  It’s hard enough for people to be receptive to the Gospel — the culture reaks of sexual sin and there are false ideas seeping into the minds of impressionable young people every day.  So it doesn’t help [...]

Your mom called me in the middle of the workday – something she never does.  I just sort of knew that you were here.  I turned from my computer, picked up the cell phone on my desk and said quickly: “You’re calling me in the middle of the day.  You’re pregnant, aren’t you.”  “Yes! I [...]

In the line of work I’m in, very little surprises me anymore. The culture is worsening, I see it up close every day.  I write about it, talk about it, fight against it in Washington, and am still able to sleep in peace at night.  So, I decided to go see the movie entitled Definitely, [...]

So, if he wanted the heights of joy, he must have, if he could find it, a great love.  But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain.  Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain — [...]