This Pastor Doesn’t Know the Sky Is Falling. Is He Right?

I recently took an afternoon to hang out with a pastor friend of mine. Nice guy. But the impression he left me with as I got on the highway to head back home was that his ministry, though effective, was missing something I had come to expect from conversations with other Christians in 2021. What […]
It Can’t Possibly Get Worse

There’s an old Jewish joke that goes like this: What’s the difference between a pessimist and an optimist? The pessimist says, “It can’t possibly get any worse than this.” The optimist says, “Of course it can!” As an incurable optimist, I’ve thought about that joke quite a bit over the last week. Just a week […]