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 [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 30, 2008
• Is Wright wrong?
April 29, 2008
• 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
April 28, 2008
• 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
April 27, 2008
• 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 [...]
April 27, 2008
• 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 [...]
