Well here I am, 16 days into the life called “retirement.” Sandy and I have completed the thousand-plus mile journey from Tennessee, and are now nestled away at Camp Singley in Washington, NH. For the first time in the roughly 35 years we have owned this wonderful camp on the [READ MORE]

In my last post I posed the thought that maybe God is just as confused as some of us with all this religious mumbo-jumbo that gets thrown around these days. I know it’s hard to believe, but a great deal of what we Christians build our lives around comes out [READ MORE]

What does the fox say? Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Everybody knows that, right? My 5-year old granddaughter Rebecca knows the song and loves it. I kind of like it too! Written by the Norwegian comedy group Ylvis, The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) is a silly, nonsensical song written to [READ MORE]

My best boyhood friend and I started the Hoola Boola Club. We were maybe 10 years old and the neighborhood was teeming with kids our age. Summer vacation days were filled with hours of playing street whiffle ball, racing each other around the block, and other fun activities – the [READ MORE]

It feels a little weird to make the claim that people are inherently good. Don’t know about you, but my whole religious upbringing argues against it. In fact the Christianity that dominates today’s landscape claims just the opposite. People are bad – separated from God – sinners from the word [READ MORE]

God IS love. God forgives. Great! But what are we going to do about the creeps among us? Not to mention how am I going to deal with my own propensity for creepiness? I’ve been wrestling with this “God loves you, but…” business for a long time. It’s a dangerous [READ MORE]

In this Next Chapter of my life I think it’s important to start by making my confession. I like confession. When I was a kid my friends and I used to sit under the maple tree in the front yard of our house on Calumet Avenue and help the Catholic [READ MORE]

My colleague Tim Meadows once told me about hearing a preacher declare, “What we need to hear from pulpits today is less Jesus and more Bible!” The preacher was obviously reacting to the fact that Jesus makes the Bible so less clear than many want it to be. I mean, [READ MORE]