That moment will hum in my memory, and resonate into eternity forever. Twenty-eight years this past week. April 23, 1994. Perkins Chapel on the SMU campus, 11 a.m. I’m standing at the front in my …
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Navigating Success and Pain
In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus has to navigate twin threats as he guides his ship through the Strait of Messina. Scylla, mythologized as a sea monster, was a rocky shoal on one side of the strait. …
Golgotha Gentleness
As I think about Easter and Holy Week, I reflect on the film, The Passion of the Christ. It’s hard to believe it was a 2004 film, almost 20 years old. It was a great movie, but I have to admit, I only …
Curious Minds
Curiosity may kill cats, but it breathes life into human beings. One of the greatest virtues we can cultivate in our children is curiosity. Curiosity is key to being a great student. There are, of …
On Suffering
The most challenging question in humanity, certainly of our faith, is “Why is there suffering in the world?” I’ve come to learn that this is the right question. For Christians, the wrong question …
A Bright Sadness
I was a cradle Episcopalian, christened as a child, confirmed in middle school, and faithfully attending the Church of England in America until I was in my early 20s. Practices like liturgy and …
The Father and the Beloved
It’s funny how the Lord takes His own sweet time in revealing things to us that we feel like we should have learned a long time ago. The way I viewed God, and how that perspective affected the way I …
Come to the Table
There is a sacred space in your home, potentially as important to the spiritual, emotional, and physical health of your family as your local church. It is your table. “The table is the place of …
Always Valentine’s Day
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. I have to admit, I find myself a little jaded about Valentine’s Day. Only to my family (and now, to you) I call it “Forced Romance Day,” created by the card …
You Are a Pastor
When I first became a head of school, I had no idea what a head did. After all, I had been a practicing attorney for ten years, and I had only begun working at Grace a year previously as the …
Lord of the Sabbath
This time last year, all of us thought there would be no way 2021 could be as crazy as 2020. Sure enough, it was. While I really do believe 2022 will be a year when we’ll see life start to stabilize a …
A Father’s Blessing
I know that sometimes “Christian movies” can be kind of hit-and-miss in terms of quality, but I saw one last week that I found gripping. Show Me the Father, produced and directed by the Kendrick …