CLASS OF 2013: A CALL FOR MORAL LEADERS

Earlier this month I had the privilege of speaking for ten minutes to the Andrews Academy student body for one of their morning worships.

DRIP, DRIP, DRIP

Drip, drip, drip.

HELD AGAINST HER WILL

We’re all still shaking our heads with disbelief and joy over the headlines out of Cleveland, Ohio, this week. On Monday afternoon the 911 dispatcher heard the plea of a breathless female voice: “Help me

GRADUATE TO THE WORLD

What does the collapse of the Bangladeshi clothing factory have to do with this graduating class of our “best and brightest”?

SOCIAL MEDIA’S WILD GUESS

Twin events in the past few days have revealed the catapulted status the social media now enjoy in our society.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

We were in the middle of our staff meeting Monday afternoon, when my phone beeped a text message. It was from Karen: “Bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.” Everyone around the table grabbed their phone, as with the rest of the nation we watched the first pictures from the marathon finish line.

SHALL WE BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION?

According to a recent Huffington Post/YouGov poll of Americans, 32% of us expressed our desire for Christianity to become the “official” religion of the United States. Forty-two percent of respondents opposed that notion, with 32% of them “strongly opposed.” I share their strong opposition. That’s why it really isn’t so inconsequential that a group of

MY MOTHER WAS BORN IN NORTH KOREA

It’s true. She was born in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Only it wasn’t North Korea back then—it was simply Korea.

A NEW POPE FOR EASTER

I’ve been amazed—on two counts—over the public reaction to the recent election of a new pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church. The global press has been awash in accolades for Pope Francis

PARTY POOPER

Remember that childhood rhyme? “Every party needs a pooper, that’s why we invited you—party pooper, party pooper!” I certainly don’t want to rain on Wall Street’s parade and become the party pooper nobody wants