So, in case you didn’t know, I am still stuck in the 80’s with most of my music playlists.  Specifically, I stick to the hard rockers and hair bands that made my wonder years go around.  (Side Note:  It is amazing to me how so many of the “Sex, Drugs, and Rock-N-Roll” heroes of the…

You might be familiar with the old circus act of the “Spinning Plate” performer.  Remember the one who could put a plate on a stick and spin the plate without dropping it.  By the end of the act, the performer had a plate in each hand, one in each foot, one on top of their…

So, this morning I was scrolling through Twitter and saw and interesting tweet.  The context stemmed from a Reddit discussion where a religious leader had recently posted a general defense of slavery as it relates to the Bible.  Particularly a defense of Jonathan Edwards as an American Slave owner during the time of legal slavery…

Many years ago, early in my vocational ministry career, I attended a seminar on “Paradigm Shifting”.  (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paradigm)  The course itself was very enlightening and educational.  Especially for a young, aspiring theologian who had it all figured out at 25 years old.  I took a lot from that learning experience overall, but one takeaway from the…

Over the last few years, it seems that the word “Science” is getting tied to every political, cultural, and religious discussion within our society.  The term is weaponized, demonized, politicized, glorified, popularized, and at times outright vulgarized across all forms of media.  Social media seems to exasperate this trend to an extreme, as suddenly we…