Archive for November, 2006

Haven’t done this in a long time, so used to Facebook being my picture medium. But for the handful not on fb, enjoy! Big snake that can kill you who visited my class. Below: hannah and some of her volleyball teammates.  Some of my great students who went with me as I spoke at the [...]

Over the past decade my passion to see people know Christ has pushed me repeatedly to the younger generation. Part of that stems from the simple truth that the overwhelming majority of people who become Christ followers do so under age 20. But it is also because the years I have spent studying, teaching about, [...]

If you were to begin your own spiritual community, your own religious system, what would you choose as its symbol? How would you spread the word about your new faith via imagery? After all, all religious traditions and most ideologies have their symbols: The star of David universally denotes Judaism; The crescent and star, though [...]

Folks who know me are aware of my love for animals. We have three cats, two dogs, and a snake at my house. I have a boa in my office, and at the moment an 11 foot burmese python. The big boy (he could kill you) belongs to my friend Dan Breeding, who has one [...]

The first annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention I attended was 1985 in Dallas. You know, the one with 45k in attendance, where the bathroom lines had more congestion than Manhattan at rush hour. Like this year, the meeting was near one of our seminaries, this time the one I attended. So, Michelle and [...]