I was traveling recently visiting family. Each of my six flights were good with the exception of one incident regarding the inflight movie: “Nuremburg.” I liked the film, but we landed ten minutes shy of its conclusion! I nearly rushed the cockpit and ordered the pilot to circle the runway a few times so I …
Can’t Buy It? Just Kill the Owner
There’s a disturbing story in 1 Kings 21 of a guy named Naboth whose vineyard appealed to the evil king Ahab. It wasn’t like the king was short of real estate. He just wanted to add it to his vast collection of properties. The rich and powerful are used to getting what they want when …
Justice or “Just Us”?
Justice restores the community to the way God envisioned it in the beginning. For those who aren’t allergic to the phrase, let’s call it “social justice.” (Before you slam the book closed or throw your Kindle against the wall, “social” is simply a modifier to clarify that we’re not talking about justice for “just us,” …
“A Knock at Midnight”
Celebrate MLK Day with some of my favorite excerpts from his landmark sermon called “A Knock at Midnight”: “Now this numerical growth of the Church is not to be over-emphasized. We must not succumb to the temptation of confusing spiritual power with big numbers. Jumboism, as someone has called it, is an utterly fallacious standard …
Common Good Righteousness
Our nation’s founders claimed a “self-evident” truth that all humans are equal and that our Creator has endowed us with “certain unalienable Rights.” These “Rights” were so important to the writers of the Declaration that they capitalized the word. Pursuing a just distribution of those rights makes one a good American as well as a …
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