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Time for a “Pit Stop” update. (We’ll just give that little title to posts referring back to the original post about my Summer ‘04 spiritual crisis. I’m not a NASCAR fan, btw, but in baseball we often talk about “fixing the flat,” so I can live with the title.)
I’ll start by saying a huge thanks […]

Today I listened to the preacher in chapel. Really, really closely for a change.
It probably wasn’t a good idea. See, God is giving me a gift. I’m starting to hear sermons like non-Christians hear them. I’m starting to feel what they feel, and it’s disconcerting.
It’s scarey. Some of my Christian friends won’t like this, but […]

Christianity Today has some wonderful articles on film these days. (Hats off to CT for the increased attention to what most of us were told would send us straight to hell.) This week they have the “Ten Greatest Baseball Movies of All Time.”
Since baseball is my therapy, and I want more of my peers to […]

Every time Baptist Press lights one up on the subject of Harry Potter, I want to hit the pause button and ask a few questions.
Assume that a child has no one to help him/her understand what they are reading. Should we be more afraid of him/her reading Harry Potter or the Bible?