Friends of mine selling their home hosted a final small get together with close friends. It was a convenient reason to get together and also to put on display, not only the final results of a lot of hard work they were proud of but also to advertise the contractors they’d used, in an effort… Read more »
A good friend of mine and I were talking the other day and he began telling me about his daughter’s struggle with the tension of feeling compelled, on the one hand, to become a missionary, while feeling compelled on the other hand to become an activist. I was struck by my friend’s very economic and… Read more »
I’m a people person and averse to confrontation…until something happens that doesn’t make sense to me. I begin to ask questions and evaluate explanations. When explanations don’t make sense, I default to the uncommon position of common sense: think for yourself, make a conclusion, act accordingly. So I tend to go along when it makes… Read more »
Western culture operates according scientism, which is to say we rely on “science” to answer any and all questions. This is short sighted to say the least. Science is unable to answer many questions, most notably the question, “What is science?” The facts discovered by science are never problematic. It is the philosophical conclusions and… Read more »
I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life. I was raised by entrepreneurial parents and grand parents. I started my first business, with the help of my parents of course, at the budding age of five, selling cookies on the weekends and candy canes at Christmas to the small businesses in the business complex where my… Read more »
A reflection on morning prayer. When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds… Read more »
It’s 2022. Mid-term elections are this year. Most people feel involved by watching televised debates or if one is really making an effort, perhaps, searching and watching YouTube videos or watching mainstream news channels or Googling information or reading one’s favorite news feeds. Much of our effort is passive observation or just too little, too… Read more »
While faithfulness is a concept simple to understand in hindsight or when the process of achieving a goal is clear, an intended encouragement in the moment to “be faithful” can sometimes feel vacuous, even meaningless. Why is this? After all, faithfulness is a virtue. Indeed, faithfulness is a virtue. Faithfulness entails an ideal or a… Read more »
Adjunct Professor has taught in K-12 and in universities in the US and Africa. He has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a master’s degree in Philosophy, cum laude, from Biola University. He currently lives in Dallas, TX on a quarter acre suburban ranch herding five children with his college sweetheart to whom he has… Read more »
