What About That GTO?
When I grew up in Detroit, the
population was over 1,200,000 people. I spent the next forty years living in
Ann Arbor, population of about 120,000. Last summer, my wife and I moved to
Brooklyn MI, …
Cultural creep
Should Christians Fear Thinking?
Four years ago, I met with a pastor who talked about
problems in his church. I asked him what he thought
he should do. He said, “Watch it! ‘Thinking’
puts you into the devil’s territory.” (He really …
Do We Know What We Worship?
In 1930, legendary economist John
Maynard Keyes wrote an essay about our future lifestyle in the twenty-first
century. He predicted that industrial progress would reduce our workload to 15 hours
a …
Torches of Freedom
Four score and eleven years ago—in 1928—George
Washington Hill had a problem: he
wanted more women to smoke cigarettes. But smoking was scorned as a crutch for
“fallen women and prostitutes.” He was …
Your Lovers Will Despise You
During its first fifteen years, my
software company only worked with domestic clients. In the late nineties, we
landed Oxford University Press (a terrific feather in our cap), and a few years
later, a …
Gifts and Gods
When I fly, I never talk to the person next to me. I sit quietly and read a book while they sit quietly and watch a video, just as God ordained airline passengers to behave. But every once in a while, …
Shut Down by a Sneer
Six weeks ago, I flew back from a Hearing God retreat in Seattle. I sat next to a young man—thirty-ish—who was returning home from a job interview. He scoffed at the interview process, saying he was …