Recent events in Ukraine reflect a struggle for control by international powers, the likes of which history has seen many before. Though we reside in one of those powers, we dare not choose a favorite. The United States (U.S.) and Russia are playing the devil’s game in Ukraine.
Job is one of my favorite books in the Bible and is interesting poetically, philosophically and theologically. I’m not a biblical scholar or theologian and have not read all the commentaries and expositions on the meaning of Job, but I know that the questions it wrestles with are the basic questions tripping up millions as a roadblock to faith in God …
A tiger killed a man and terrorized a village nearly 100 years ago. My grandfather, a missionary to India, shot the tiger. Its massive head and hide were preserved and then passed down through our family as a carpet until it landed in the most improbable of places: in a Brahmin priest’s prayer room on the shores of Lake Michigan …
In his late 20s, says Hugh Hollowell, a driven and restless stockbroker, he began reading about the Anabaptists and their Jesus-centered approach to gospel living …
