The pastor’s words went from sad to mad, from fear to rage. He confessed an unquenchable thought. He wished the shooter had just killed himself before entering the school. He confessed that he wanted violence, if it spared the children. Can you relate?
Scooped Out Like a Halloween Pumpkin
He reached inside me, as if I were a Halloween pumpkin, and scooped me out. Then he declared a do-over. That’s the way it works with contaminants sometimes. He scooped out my “good” beliefs and my false beliefs. And he chose to start clean.
Friendship Happens: A Humble Suggestion for this Election Season
Election seasons divide people. They do so almost by definition: positions taken, votes collected, ideological-bases solidified (and polarized). I fear that there is little to no hope. Maybe for this one season, we need to accept that we live inside a high school debate class. Tables are pushed to the edges of the room. Two […]
Lance Armstrong: Embellishment and Insanity
So this week news broke that Lance Armstrong is a doper. In fact he is more than a doper, he is a cheater and with his cheating he has taken the dreams and imaginations of millions of people and flushed them down the toilet. He has taken a movement of cancer awareness/financial support and dumped […]
Huffington Post Article: We Were Blind: How a Homeless Couple Taught Us To See
I was asked by HuffPost to submit a short article. It was published yesterday. Here is a small excerpt, followed by the link:
Original Poem by William P. Young
Have you seen this inspiring original poem, composed by Wm Paul Young, author of The Shack, from his beautiful foreword in my book, Neighbors and Wise Men?
Join the Spectacle on September 30: Book Celebration on Steroids!!
An urgent surprise. A Spectacle of memorable proportions. If you are game for the unexpected, CHECK THIS OUT:
God as a “Fairy Tale”? Your input requested…
As a boy I was first introduced to God as a fairy tale. I don’t think anyone intentionally intended to do so, but they couldn’t help themselves. And I can hardly blame them. God was presented as one amongst a whole pantheon of supernatural personalities: Moses, Superman, the Lorax, Santa… Aslan. You can see that […]
Insidious Darkness and Actual Light… in me
The reason this radio diatribe moved me to write is because I am amazed by the insidious inability we humans have to accept the corruption and beauty that coexist in the human heart. This radio host did not have a capacity to discuss the simultaneous presence of darkness and light in this public figure. For […]
How do we relate to a God who hides? Your input desired…
How do we relate to a God who hides? This is the core question that I want to explore in my next book. I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time and I have started to sculpt the book’s first chapters. Here is what I desire from you: I have come to […]