Originally published 30 Sep 2009. Updated 25 Jan 2021. The modern world — and the modern church along with it — is dominated by splinteredness and individuality. Age segregation, gender segregation, grade segregation, marital status segregation…numerous forms of segregation abound, at the expense of the multigenerational worship and life that used to dominate church and culture. Multigenerational […]
American Christianity
I see this regularly on my way to the library, and it grieves me. I know that the flag “etiquette” here is technically “correct,” but that which represents the Kingdom of God should not be placed in subjection to that which represents this earthly nation. Unfortunately, as my husband very aptly points out, far too […]
It’s Not My Thing
We have a friend who would like to homeschool his children. The difficulty is that he will have to do it himself after working all day, because his wife refuses to stay home and take care of their children. Why? She says, “it’s not my thing.” It’s not my “thing,” either. I am not a […]