Current Events Monday: Thinking Theologically about Gas Stations
Most Austinites know that the city and its sprawling suburbs continue to grow and expand at a staggering rate. In fact, Hays County was the...
Current Events Monday: Avocados and Missions
You may have missed some serious news about avocados yesterday, considering the hoopla surrounding a rather popular NFL game. We can take...
Current Events Monday: You Must Be Born Again–A Response to “Cancel Culture”
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God’” (John...
Current Events Monday: Younger Americans Crave Fellowship
You likely heard much more about Tom Brady’s retirement over the weekend than the intriguing news concerning Americans and religion. Pew...
Boat Anchors and the Ukraine Crisis
If you are a native West Texan (like me), then you may not have much working knowledge of boat anchors. I know of few bodies of water out...
Current Events Monday: Do What You Must Do
The Rev. Martin Luther King., Jr. sat shaking at his kitchen table early in the morning of Friday, January 26, 1955. Around two months...
Current Events Monday: On Criticism
A cursory glance at today’s headlines, op-eds, and conversations among political pundits illustrates our culture’s obvious penchant for...
Current Events Monday: Grieving as Those Who Have Hope
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as indeed the...
Current Events Monday: What’s the Leading Cause of Death in American Young People? It’s Not Covid.
Underneath the hype concerning both the holidays and the latest surge of the Omicron variant, a sobering piece of information almost...