Those of you who know me will know that I share my life pretty openly with others. I don’t have a lot of secrets. I want to talk a little bit about why that is. It is not because I particularly enjoy being a very public person, I am really kind of shy . . [...]

Something surprising happened to me about a month ago. Maybe when I tell you what it was, you won’t be surprised, but I sure have been! If you have been reading my status updates on Facebook, you will know that I spend the first week of December in a discipline of silence for five days. [...]

It seems that there are always some kind of movements happening within Christianity! Of recent note, there have been a few movements in the past five to ten years: the post-modern church, the emergent church, and so on. But I was having a conversation with Philip Clayton, Dean of the Claremont School of Theology and [...]

Did 9/11 backfire for the terrorists? I have been doing a lot of radio interviews lately to prepare for my book launch and I’m finding my voice in something which surprises me a little bit. We are hearing a lot right now about the 10th anniversary of 9/11. There are tv shows, radio shows, newspaper [...]

Although it’s Memorial Weekend here in southern California, it feels like winter at Big Bear Lake! Cold winds are blowing and there are white caps on the water. The clouds are so low that they kiss the lake as they blow by. A seagull is blown off course by the winds, but amazingly manages to [...]