“Disoriented, wandering, directionless.” This is not the descriptor of young people of 2022, but rather the description of the generation that came to adulthood during WWI and the early 1920s. Contemporary Ernest Hemmingway referred to his peers as the ‘The Lost Generation.” This generation had seen the slaughter and brutality…

Everyone is an amateur historian, yes even you. Whether you are aware of it or not, you remember the past, choose signifigant events, and make meaning of those events in light of their present reality.  We look to history because we desire to find purpose and meaning in the past.…

Those living on September 11, 2001 will never forget that day. As an 18 year-old college student, I came downstairs on that Tuesday morning to see my friends huddled around the TV in disbelief. We all quietly watched the horrific images of the World Trade towers falling and the fires…

Celebrated football coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers famously said, “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”  Sickness, suffering, discord, disruption and debate has knocked down many in 2020; including churches.  One example of that knock down to churches was quantified in a…

We live in an age of “fake news,” “false narratives,” and “post-truth.” These catchphrases became vogue in the last decade. However, fake news began many decades and in fact many millennia ago—on the day described in Genesis 3. The false narrative of the enemy to Eve was that, “‘You will…