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 [...]
I’m up today at Novel Journey in a post entitled Should Christian Fiction Provide Answers or Provoke Questions? Excerpt: Paradox is not something Christians like to concede. We believe Jesus is the Answer, and as such, questions exist to be dispelled rather than nurtured. However, the universe rarely cooperates. There is mystery and wonder. Even [...]
It took President Obama only days to keep his promise. You wanted change? You got it. A day after ordering closures of Guantanamo Bay, secret overseas CIA prisons, and banning torture, Obama reversed a ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. (Story HERE.) So while millions [...]
