Tag Archive: Others

Declaring We Are for Others Means Better Resolutions

Earlier this week a friend came by the office. He informed me he may have to stop attending this Baptist church. I had been gone over the weekend and wondered what calamity had struck that would provoke my weekly prayer partner to utter such ...

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Going Beyond the Normal

Once you consider how to get beyond conventional thinking no subject seems to be off limits. Much of the reading from my foray into "Readings in Postmodern Philosophy and Theology" has left me thinking. I know I am on the precipice and the slope looks slippery. What I mean is that often we only think in ...

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Not What You Expect from Someone Without a Home

I could not help but think of a conversation with a young African-American man more than twenty years ago. Standing on a busy downtown Dallas street we chatted about the circumstances that led the gentleman to living on the street. He spoke of a good job, family and a home. Something happened. He may have ...

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