• Is Wright wrong?

Presidential candidate’s Barak Obama’s pastor may just lose the election for the Illinois senator.  The Reverend Jeremiah Wright has accused the U.S. government of creating the HIV/AIDS virus, claimed that the 9/11 attacks were a judgment from God, and instead of beseeching “God bless America,” bellowed “God damn America.”

Whether Wright is wrong on his claims may be debatable, but the tone is certainly not Christian.  Paul admonishes followers of Christ to “speak the truth in love” and to “let your conversation be always full of grace” (Colossians 4:6).  So some, hopefully, gracious observations:

On balancing truth and grace

• Speaking in Colorado

I’ll be speaking at the May 14-17 Colorado Christian Writers Conference in Estes Park—an absolutely beautiful setting in the Rockies with elk wandering the campus.  I’ll be teaching “Communicate to Change Lives” (shamelessly based on my latest book) and speaking at the closing general session.

Colorado Christian Writers Conference

Communicate to Change Lives

• Keeping your sanity

Okay, I’m probably the last person who should be writing on keeping one’s sanity, but here are two articles just released by Rev. magazine on dealing with office stress and keeping perspective in life as a minister or church worker:

It’s a Wonderful Life—and ministry

Top ten signs the office staff is stressed out

• Digital dinosaur adapts

The good people at gospel.com have been encouraging (nagging) this digital dinosaur to adapt to the new Web environment of WordPress with its tags and pings and all kinds of things I don’t understand.  So here goes!

The advantage is that this site becomes easier for you to navigate and leave comments.  And, hopefully, it prevents me from becoming a prehistoric fossil!

Simply click here to go to the pre-WordPress material.  I’ll be transferring things over in the next several weeks, so thanks for your patience.

And please, do leave a comment below.  Thanks!

• Oprah’s new earth

I had never heard of Eckhart Tolle and his “Oprah Book Club” best-seller, A New Earth—until a woman  in a Christian writers’ group said she needed to leave early to catch the satelite seminar of the book.  I do  hope she was simply doing research and not falling for the latest New Age fad.

To get a quick read on “The Church of Oprah” and her overt anti-Christian message over the years, 5 million people have viewed a short  video on YouTube.  Here are some resources for further study:

The Church of Oprah Exposed [YouTube]

Oprah’s Spirituality: Exploring a New Earth [Probe Ministries]

Oprah’s Spirituality: It’s No Secret [Craig Von Buseck at CBN]

Oprah and Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth [SermonCentral.com]

Genuine Jesus or Counterfeit Christ?

The Ancient New Age