reason4thehope

A few weeks back, Donald Trump had a man thrown out of a rally for complaining that it was boring. I laughed at the time; life imitates The Onion, I thought. As it turns out, the man was part o...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/a-campaign-gone-full-bore/

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. – Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) In America...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/shedding-grace/

“Has no one condemned you?” – John 8:10 If the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage didn’t turn out the way you hoped, you may have some questions for God right now. How could H...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/the-right-questions/

“It is written…‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.'” – Matthew 21:13 I recently read an article that made me wonder if I had time t...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/gods-housecleaning/

A perverse man spreads strife, and a slanderer separates intimate friends. – Proverbs 16:28 As an evolving center-right kind of political creature, I respect my friends who sit a bit farther to...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/what-i-learned-from-a-troll/

I recently had my first exposure to Dr. Ben Carson, who is generating Republican presidential buzz with a growing fan base on the evangelical right. On video, he was a glib and entertaining...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/american-salad/

Pleased with us in flesh to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel… – Charles Wesley, “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” If Jesus were a mythological figure, his parentage might make him a kind of demigo...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/no-half-measures/

About 20 years ago, we truly escaped the mechanical limits of the printing press and acquired the ability to move more or less infinite numbers of words anywhere we wanted, as quickly as we wante...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/words-fail/

You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house… – 1 Peter 2:5 I must have driven by the old church hundreds of times without knowing what it was. Dense trees, brush an...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/what-would-the-walls-say/

I’m not broke but you can see the cracks, you can make me perfect again – U2,  “All Because of You” Christians know they’re not supposed to hide the light within them; as Jesus said, ...

https://reason4thehope.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/cracked-pots/