Archive for April, 2008

Newsweek and Why I’m “Pro-Life with a Heavy Heart”

This last week Lisa Miller of Newsweek called to talk with me about my chapter on abortion in my new book, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White. The article is a short one that you can read here entitled, “
How Would Jesus Choose?” Already I’ve been forwarded links where folks, […]

Lessons from the Jayhawks

My heart is still beating fast from watching the Jayhawks come back from a nine point deficit with two minutes left to tie the game at two seconds and send the National Championship into overtime, and then winning in overtime.  Unbelieveable!  Congratulations all you KU fans!  There are a undoubtedly a host of life lessons […]

Six of Life’s Most Important Words

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A Look at the Night Sky

Ten years ago LaVon bought me my first telescope (a 4″dobsonion reflector). This last week, after years of looking and dreaming, I bought a new telescope (an 8″ Meade LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain I picked up on e-bay). The scope arrived on Friday, but I didn’t have time to set it up and try it […]

Seeing Gray - for Your Mental Health?

I’m in San Diego today to speak to the students at Point Loma University in their chapel service, then to speak at a luncheon at the City Club of San Diego and finally at an evening lecture at First United Methodist Church of San Diego, before flying back to K.C.  I’m speaking on the topic […]

Seeing Gray, the Book, to be Released April 2

Two years ago I sat down with a 24-year-old young man named John who gave me eight reasons he was not a Christian. As we talked it became apparent that he was not rejecting Jesus, but a particular version of Christianity; a version that saw the world in black and white terms that made […]

The Gold Standard for Life

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