– Did you know you can get corn on your pizza in Israel? – The day before Israeli Independence Day is a solemn day known as Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day). At 11:00 AM, the air raid sirens sounded. Everything in the country comes to a halt. Cars stop.…

We made it after 24 grueling hours of travel. It feels like we never left Jerusalem, perhaps because we left a piece of our hearts here in February. We at dinner looking at a view like this one, and we tasted the goodness of God. More to follow. Time to have our friend, the cheerful…

So many questions…Feel free to give me some answers. Or add some random questions of your own! Do you view yourself as a spiritual settler, a wanderer, a pilgrim or an exile? None of the above? All of the above? I would like to propose a new rule: the only church leaders who are allowed…

Tomorrow is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day – and in light of the staggering hatred of that era, and of the genocidal, demonic activity that has anhiliated subsequent generations in places like Bosnia and Rwanda – I found myself pondering Pastor Martin Niemoller’s words today. Niemoller spent 8 years in prison during the second world…

We’d been living in a rental townhome in Gurnee, IL. It had its charms: it was on a golf course, which meant that the grounds were pretty well-kept. But it had its downside, too. The complex was built for some swingin’ empty-nesters in the mid-1970’s, and our unit hadn’t been updated since then. As in,…

I have long-admired Frank Viola’s thinking. Do I always agree with him? No. But Bill and I have traveled some of the same terrain he has in Christendom, and can affirm most of his thoughtful conclusions about the church. His sometimes-barbed critiques have been written from a “friend of the Bridegroom” perspective. He loves what…