For people who call themselves Christians of followers of Jesus, one day of the year is called particularly 'good.' Strangely, it's the day of Jesus' death. That seems quite odd, if not outright morbid. What'

     I recently picked up a fascinating book by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw called, 'Jesus for President.' I know that not everyone that finds their way to rednow would consider themselves to be a Christian, but even if you

two moments observed, one beautiful and both infinitely sad.

 

            The middle school and

Life and Death on the Playground

I posted this essay elsewhere on rednow, but I spend more times reading blogs here than other stuff,

      I have recently been a part of a couple professional situations where folks in positions of leadership have made strong decisive moves that have had big fallout. Their moves have caused pain and confusion for people close

      It's Thanksgiving time. For a lot of us, that might not mean much more than food, football and getting up bizarrely early on Friday to go shopping. Still, I bet most of us have at least a moment or two where we stop and think about what

I move in Christian circles where a lot of people really don't like Halloween. They don't like the fact that a lot of kids dress up like witches and ghosts. They don't like the fact, urban myth or actual truth, that satanists use this night

It's Tuesday night and I'm relaxed and pretty content. That's kind of surprising because a week ago I was freaked out stressed. My boss was in some high level meetings that really looked like they were going to go badly. Really badly. I was

I just got an invitation to join the facebook group, "free the jena 6", referring to the case of what appears to be the profoundly racially motivated prosecution on attempted murder charges of six African-American youths in the South who got

I had a most unsettling experience in church a week or so ago. A lot of churches say the 'Lord's Prayer' every Sunday. You may or may not be familiar with it: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by your name, your kingdom come