remember what God requires of each one of us: "To do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God."
Tag: opinion
let’s start a, “Let’s Listen, America!” campaign
Thinking about this some more, the real common ground turns out not so much to be agreement as listening, and respectful dialogue. We don't hash out solutions via rhetorical ascendency so much as through compromise and mutual understanding.
relationships trump opinion! (well, they should)
the moment we allow anything - opinion, politics, religion, social issues - to become more important to us than relationships (the very thing we were created for, and which Christ gave everything to heal!), then we are in trouble - serious trouble...
“Happy Holidays” and hanging with “The Most Interesting Man in the World”
If you missed it yesterday, please check out our 2015 Christmas Newsletter. The post is worth the read, and includes some great pictures. This morning, unfortunately, I'm sick. So I'll just post this photograph from last night's WFPC choir party, and then redirect you to my "Happy Holidays" column at Wake Forest Today. If I …
Continue reading “Happy Holidays” and hanging with “The Most Interesting Man in the World”
Crossing the line: Chick-Fil-A and our responsibility to protect opinion
Someone is crossing the line of separation between state and religion, and it's not Chick-Fil-A. or many years, the mainstay of my public writing was "Opinion." My weekly "Op-Ed" column for the Tampa Tribune ran in several local editions and - occasionally - on the main editorial pages. Sometimes my thoughts even garnered national attention. …
Continue reading Crossing the line: Chick-Fil-A and our responsibility to protect opinion
Amy Winehouse. Norway. Light. Life.
For several years - circa 1999 to around 2008 - I penned a weekly "op-ed" column that ran in anywhere from one to eight local newspapers. Twice - before staff writers decided freelance work should not qualify - I won top honors at the Florida Press Association's annual awards banquet. I especially miss the sense …
Derek Maul: Words, Photographs, and Food for the Journey 