The Prayer of Seeing & Decreeing

A couple of weeks ago my bride and I had the privilege of spending some time with a wonderful congregation of believers in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Menomonie is a charming, small-college town wrapped around one end of a beautiful lake. Love Church is a special light to that community, skillfully led by Pastors Paul and Dana […]

Follow Up to “Human Life’

Since posting the essay below, I’ve stumbled across two additional videos out of China/Asia relevant to the subject of how different cultures with different spiritual foundations place starkly different levels of value on human life. One, which I will not share, is of a newborn girl in China being killed. Because she is a girl. […]

Why We Value Human Life

You can see terrible things on the Internet. And once you see something, you can’t unsee it. Last week I stumbled across a video that I wish I hadn’t. Having watched it, I can’t stop thinking about it. And having thought about, it’s made me mindful of something very important and relevant about this particular […]

Our Crisis of Empathy

{Note: I wrote the following post four years ago at the height of Ferguson-related protests and riots. Feels timely to me. But you be the judge.} It was dark, but I could still discern in the headlights’ glare that a shotgun was pointed directly at my chest. “Son, that’s a good way to get your […]