When I was first starting in Student Ministry, the big danger everyone was talking about was the idea of Relative Truth and Postmodern thinking. My argument was that if we can all make our own truth o...  Read More

I pulled out my summer clothes last weekend. I was already in the garage doing some cleaning and organizing, and it was a beautiful, warm, sunny day. So I thought, “Spring is here! I might as well pul...  Read More

I sometimes get headaches when I don’t drink coffee in the morning.It’s my cross to bear.I don’t make a big deal of it; it’s just something I live with.Also, I’m still recovering from a concussion. I’...  Read More

There’s a scene in the Office that is deeper than the characters looking in a dump for sales leads they had mistakenly thrown away. Standing in the middle of the Scranton City Dump Michael and Dwight ...  Read More

There’s a theological viewpoint that has gained some traction fairly recently that includes the doctrine of “Limited Atonement.” To oversimplify, the belief is that Christ’s death was only for “the el...  Read More

Philip Yancey, in What’s So Amazing About Grace?, recounts the story of a bunch of professors at Oxford University who were sitting around one day arguing about the primary differences between various...  Read More

Misha and I stopped paying for cable nearly 20 years ago. Before streaming services took over, we decided to go with what we could find on the networks we could pick up with our TV antenna. We missed ...  Read More

One of Plato’s most famous ideas was his allegory of the cave. To oversimplify, he suggested that most humans are like prisoners in a cave, only able to see shadows on the back wall. Because those sha...  Read More

One of the Parkers’ go-to parenting books is Parenting with Love and Logic, by Foster Cline and Jim Fay. For a while it was used in some school districts as a structure for classroom management. To ov...  Read More

Dignity. Always dignity.  -Don LockwoodMy most embarrassing moment (out of the many I’ve had) happened on my high school senior trip. We were on our way to Washington, DC, and stopped at a rest stop...  Read More

I’m pretty sure most people would agree with the idea that things are not as they should be, even though we see beauty and joy all around us.People die.People don’t treat others the way they should.Pe...  Read More

I love my wife. More than anything in this world. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for her, and I feel most complete as a person when I’m with her.But I have to admit to you that there are ways I don’t ...  Read More