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June 1, 2025 —
Plenty bad news right? So here are a few good news items gleaned from recent reading: Polar Bears Are On the Rebound. Polar bears in jeopardy have been presented as the poster child, or poster bear, of climate change, including a widely seen but, it turns out, misleading video from National Geographic. Good news, polar bears,... Read More
May 29, 2025 —
In early May I gave a talk at the Mockingbird Ministries Conference in NYC with the title “Isn’t Christianity Really Just About Being Good?” You can access an audio version of the talk here. It was fun to do and well-received. The only thing about the audio version is that you miss the slides that... Read More
May 27, 2025 —
Before my recent two weeks of walking in the U.K.’s Lake District and Yorkshire Dales gets too far behind me, I want to record for myself and you, a few thoughts and memories about the experience. While I do a fair amount of walking and backpacking in the U.S., this journey was unique in a... Read More
May 24, 2025 —
I’m guessing that a fair number of people in blue precincts are reacting to this week’s publication of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by thinking, “Hey, give the guy a break, he’s old, he’s sick, he was a good President — why bring all this stuff up... Read More
May 21, 2025 —
It was a fantastic trip. Three days in NYC for the Mockingbird Conference, then to England’s fabled Lake District for a circuit hike with a lot of up and down. The second week, we followed the “Dales Way” trail in Yorkshire from Bowness to Ilkley. All told (adding in walking in NYC), 202 miles walked,... Read More
April 29, 2025 —
I take off today for a three week trip. First stop NYC and the Mockingbird Ministries Conference at Calvary/ St. George’s Church on the lower east side. Then on Saturday evening an overnight flight to Manchester, England. From there north to Windemere and Ambleside and two weeks of backpacking, one week in the Lake District,... Read More
April 26, 2025 —
The “Abundance Agenda” is getting a lot of attention of late. I’ve mentioned the Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson book, Abundance: How Progress Is Made. I agree with them on a lot of their points. Zoning restrictions, NIMBY-ism and environmental impact statements gone crazy have sometimes made it all but impossible to build anything. The... Read More
April 24, 2025 —
Here’s a guest post from my dear friend, Mary McWilliams. Mary lives in Seattle, worked in health care and was a member of Plymouth Church when I was pastor there. Thanks Mary for this thoughtful contribution. I was listening to The Daily podcast from The New York Times on Wednesday while eating lunch. The longtime... Read More
April 21, 2025 —
I have previously mentioned the new book by the Brookings Institution scholar, Jonathan Rauch. It is Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy. It is such an interesting book, in no small part because it comes from a scholar who isn’t himself religious, but has repented, if you will, of his own onetime contempt for... Read More
April 19, 2025 —
Easter is a not “a triumph of the human spirit” story. It is not about realizing your “human potential.” It is not a story about how the good people endured and overcame. We love those stories. Especially we Americans love those stories. Hero stories. Rags to riches stories. Fighting and winning stories. No, we are... Read More
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