I made the mistake of telling my wife that one of my best memories from our recent trip to Maui was the two hours I spent every morning, from 5-7 AM, writing at a local coffee house. She rolled her eyes and said, “Gee, thanks!” Yes, the picturesque scenery and romantic sunsets were wonderful. But [...]
Many of us would like to forget our childhood. But try as we might, some things stick. In this category, are parental proverbs. You know, those sayings, quips, attitudes, and responses from our parents that tend to niggle into our disposition. So just when you think you’re not like your father, he comes falling out [...]
Posting from beautiful Maui! Our flight from LAX was uneventful and we landed in Kahului Airport Sunday, sometime after noon. The hardest part of Hawaii trips, for me, is the claustrophobia of sitting in the same spot, knees jammed into my gut, surrounded by fidgety kids and sniffling strangers, for five-plus hours. Man, I need [...]
Well, at 71 years young, my mother’s gone and done it. She’s moving to Maui. It’s been a dream of hers — one that she’s driven us kids batty with for the last decade! But after seeming eons of shameless self-pity, she managed to nuke the funk and recover her girlish brass. It’s all happened [...]
I finally pulled the trigger on writing a vampire novel, officially staking any possible claim to the mainstream Christian market. I’ve been at it for the last few months, conniving characters, niggling plotlines, and immersing myself in the vast pool of vampire mythology. It’s been a lot of fun (as opposed to, um, draining). If [...]
Evangelism is about spreading the Gospel, being a witness for Christ. However, somewhere along the way we confused evangelism with sandwich board clad street preachers frothing condemnatory fire and the kitschy Jesus Junk so prolific in Christian retail. For instance, Kerusso (maker of this Blood Donor shirt and similar “witnessing tools”) has trademarked the slogan [...]
“Got Church?” Apparently, that saying is part of an advertising tactic designed to get people to go to church. I’ve been seeing signs around town with that logo, mimicking the “Got Milk?” campaign. So someone pulls up to a stop light, sees the “Got Church?” placard hanging there beside the “Lost Dog” and “We Buy [...]
Since football is a big topic this weekend… The Wall Street Journal’s, For NFL Mascots, Meaner is Better, got me thinking about how lame most NFL logos are. I suppose you could argue that a football team’s logo isn’t supposed to look slick or cool. I mean, if the Arizona Cardinals happen to win the [...]
Call me unforgiving, judgmental. But I’m having the darnedest time getting excited about Ted Haggard’s return to the public spotlight. And, in case you’ve missed it, he’s returning in a big way. The disgraced mega-church pastor will be appearing on Oprah and Larry King promoting an upcoming HBO documentary. From Newsweek’s The Lost Shepherd: It’s [...]
One of the problems with working 10 hour days (outside the home) is that when something glitches in my website, I usually don’t hear about it till after the fact. So when I came home yesterday evening, I discovered three different emails asking what happened to Decompose. I immediately went to the site and discovered [...]
