Thinking About Suicide

Thinking About Suicide

by | Mar 16, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Life Issues, Suicide

I can’t imagine what it is like to lose someone to suicide. I was therefore very sad when someone we knew took her life recently. We pray for her family though I suspect the grief and the questions will haunt them, and indeed all of us, for a long time. When a suicide...
X-Files, Seasons 4 and 10

X-Files, Seasons 4 and 10

by | Mar 9, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Media, Movies & Television

It’s a pity that the recent return of The X-Files (season 10, 6 episodes, fourteen years after the end of the last season) ran on Fox channel when X-Files season 4 was running on Hits Channel at the same time. Season 4 was a showcase of some of the best of those...
Wising Up

Wising Up

by | Mar 2, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Books, Media

In the introduction to his book The Longing for Home, Frederick Buechner writes: Time, like the receding waters of the ocean, bears all of us who are time’s children farther and farther away from the near shore and closer and closer to those mysterious depths...
Community Redux

Community Redux

by | Feb 17, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Church, Community

A few nights ago, Bernice and I hosted a dinner for some young Christian dentists and their mentor, a professor from dental school. We were meeting to see how we could more intentionally mentor dental students who were serious about following Christ in...