Communicating With Kindness In a Culture of Hostility
I’ve got a friend who hasn’t spoken to his family since November. On Thanksgiving Day, he and his sister got into a fight over politics. The argument escalated and ended badly. Christmas came and went, as did his mother’s eighty-third birthday, and the family is still not speaking to one another. We live in a […]
Reflections on Veterans Day
This morning, I, along with millions of other Americans, woke up in the comfort and safety of an American home. As I came downstairs and glanced at my Bible on the kitchen table, I had no fear of being arrested for contraband, even though owning a Bible is against the law in multiple countries across […]
Beware: Self-Absorption Is a Recipe For Misery
Not long ago, I read about a poll conducted by Oxygen Media that indicated twenty-five percent of American young women would rather win America’s Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s profoundly depressing, but not surprising. We live in a culture where it’s deemed more valuable to be famous or beautiful than to make […]
Why I Thank God For Baseball
Unless you’ve been unconscious for the last 36 hours, you’ve probably heard the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908. As a lifelong Cubs fan, it’s been an exciting week of heart-pounding baseball. Actually, it’s been a magical season. In a year filled with a contentious political debate that some […]