Book Review: Praying for Strangers Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit By River Jordan (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) River Jordan proclaims herself to be a private person. She keeps personal things to herself and her faith is...
Three People Who Played the Blame Game Once, when the Israelites were in the desert and thirsty, God told Moses to speak to a rock and water would pour forth. Instead, out of anger towards the people, Moses hit the rock with his walking stick...
Six Types of Books in My Library What We Can Learn from My Overflowing Bookshelves I really enjoy books. I like to read them and I like to buy them. My library collection is vast, falling into six categories: Worth Keeping: I enjoyed reading...
52 Churches: Wrap-up and Reboot Between last Easter and this Easter, my wife and I visited fifty-two churches. Today marks the end of that adventure but also the beginning of a new one. 52 Churches Wrap-up Our journey is over. I’m sad and excited...
Celebrate Easter as a Spiritual Holiday We’ve mostly lost Christmas as a spiritual celebration. Let’s not lose Easter, too. This spring some groups have banned Easter egg hunts—not the activity but the name. Concerned pundits decry...
Happy Good Friday At one time, my dad received his paycheck every other week, on the last day of the workweek. With a smile, he called each of these paydays good Friday. Dad enjoyed good Friday twenty-six times a year. Some years the real Good...
Book Review Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture By Adam S. McHugh (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture confirms that slightly more than half the...
Don’t Add to or Subtract From the Bible Most people who read the Bible are careful—or so they claim—not to add anything to God’s written word or to take anything away from it. A commonly cited verse to support this practice is Revelation...
Can People Follow Jesus Within Other Religious Contexts? In Thursday’s post, Who Are Christian Pharisees? I talked about connecting—or reconnecting Christianity—with its Jewish roots—called Messianic Judaism. Although this thought may alarm some...
Book Review: When Helping Hurts When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself By Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) As implied by the subtitle, the main premise of When Helping Hurts is...
