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A Minnesota December

Northern Minnesota December As a child I loved December best of all months. It held the two most important days of the year—my birthday and Christmas. Everything was good in December. Nights so cold the snow squeaked under foot. Air so clear the glittering stars seemed hung just above the trees. Snow so high it […]

Race in America: A Conversation

Reading the World—interview of Luke Bobo on Race in America “To love your neighbor as yourself,” Christopher Wright says in The Mission of God, “is not just the second great commandment in the law; it is the essential implication of our common createdness” (p. 424). There are no exceptions, though our brokenness finds plenty of […]

Film Comment: The Founder (2016)

Some books are published not because there is any chance they will become best sellers but because they need to be published. What they say is too important to be ignored. The same is true of some films. I doubt anyone involved in the making of The Founder imagined they were making a blockbuster. But […]

Living in a Boring Cosmos

Consider being alone, still, in complete silence. It can be a precious relief, a lovely respite from noise, and busyness, and demands, and people. I need such times, but they are rare. Occasionally I turn off my phone, shut down my laptop and find a quiet spot to sit where I won’t be interrupted for […]

Be of Good Courage

It might be wise to resurrect a biblical greeting that was used when God’s people faced uncertain times—“Be of good courage.” The story goes like this: For three generations the people of Israel had been a nomadic tribe freely wandering the hills and land of ancient Palestine. Abraham had been the first, the patriarch who […]

Faithfulness in Political Uncertainty

Great forces have been unleashed politically, and the ripples set in motion are washing over our world. The 2016 American presidential election revealed that our media and political elite were not listening to their fellow citizens, or they would have noticed as the ripples turned into a wave that took them by surprise. This will […]

When Progress Breeds Problems

Usually we are simply swept along by progress, and hardly notice how the advances in technology and the marketplace actually work themselves out in our lives. We’ve become used to incremental change, as long as it stays incremental. Occasionally we do notice, of course, when the change is too big to slip by us, or […]

Black Ops Advertising (Mara Einstein, 2016)

Blurring lines, ads go undercover Not too long ago it seemed that the understanding was that there should be a bright line drawn between advertising and content. “We’ll be right back,” talk show hosts said, “right after these messages.” Television programs were divided into sections, each separated by a series of commercials, unless we paid […]