“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”[1] This quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently summarizes chapter seventeen of Richard Stearns’ The Hole in our Gospel. Let…
Every generation is marked by moments that are so impacting that people ever after remember exactly where they were when the moment occurred. For some it was Neil Armstrong’s epic walk on the moon. For others it was the assassination of JFK. I remember, at fifteen years old, hearing President…
One two-word phrase stood out to me from this week’s The Hole in our Gospel reading: “nonnegotiable commitments.”[1] What are yours? What are ours? Church calendars can become just as busy and overcrowded as individual and family calendars so amid the endless array of good ideas and pressing needs, we…
