Today my wife and I had the privilege to be on The Mall to watch (on a Jumbotron, for sure) the second inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States.

The peaceful transferal of power or the start of a...

A hidden murder; a plaintive plea for mercy outside heaven's gate for one who found no mercy in life; a sad sorry horse doing circles 'round the course; blind cows; putting up a hell of a fight so the demons don't get you...

If we're good, maybe Santa will put some clean coal in our stockings. No joke. Not kidding.

Yep. I'm serious.

But if we've been naughty, well, we'll get a fracking switch. Ouch!

Switching to natural gas is naughty, but investing in clean coal is nice? Huh? Did somebody slip me...

There's no way around it. The three presidential debates between President Obama and Gov. Romney were, frankly, vapid and uninspiring.

Gov. Romney's move to the center was such a contrast to the man we saw in the Republican primaries that it leaves one wondering what is at the core of...

As a very wise woman (ahem, my wife) pointed out to me, the second presidential debate at Hofstra University could be summed up this way:

Question: "What are you going to do for me (or my group)?"

Answer: "Here's what I'm going to do for you ..."

(See the...

Ten years ago in the fall of 2002 I helped to ignite a media firestorm by utilizing the question "What Would Jesus Drive?" in an educational campaign, which included a 30-second TV spot by my organization, the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN)....

I'm a dog person. But I fell in love and married the greatest spouse ever, who happened to have three cats when we got married, along with Mugsy, the greatest dog the world will ever know, and a rock-star iguana named Iggy, who always...

Extreme drought. Extreme heat. Freakish storms with names I've never heard of -- a "derecho" -- that knock out power for millions, leaving us sweltering.

If you want to know what living with climate change looks like, look outside or keep abreast of current events. And as temperatures continue to...

This past Sunday morning the organization I work for, the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), ran TV spots in key states -- Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and in D.C. -- asking viewers to tell their Senators "that defending the EPA's ability to reduce carbon pollution is...

Recently my wife and I took in a 10:15 a.m. showing of "The Avengers." (At our local theater the first show on Saturday's and holidays is even cheaper than the matinee. For the rare times we actually go to the movies, I simply can't enjoy it if we...

I have a new friend. His name is Victor Mughogho from Malawi. Victor heads up an organization that helps his fellow Malawians climb out of poverty. My organization brought Victor to D.C. recently to speak at our Global Day of Prayer for Creation Care about what...

President Obama is in the midst of a speaking tour on energy, prodded in large measure by spiking gas prices and dropping approval ratings as many assume the President can do more, but isn't for some reason. The President is trying to convince folks that while he can't really do...

I hate to say this, but the man currently leading in the polls to become the Republican candidate for President of the United States, former Senator Rick Santorum, is woefully misinformed when it comes to global warming, one of the top challenges facing our country and the world. His own...

President Obama surprised many of us climate-action types during his recent State of the Union speech. He caught us off guard by actually uttering the words "climate change."

Here's what the President said: "The differences in this chamber may be too deep right...

The international climate talks that recently wrapped up in Durban, South Africa, could prove to be an historic turning point in the international community's efforts to overcome global warming. While the urgency for overcoming global warming has never been greater, it was actually helpful that expectations for this meeting were...

When Apple founder Steve Jobs died not long ago many news accounts, obits, and reflections -- the smart ones, the good ones -- drew upon his 2005 Commencement address at Stanford University. Some even included video clips or links to his full address. (See full text and video

Let's pretend that a new movie is being cast, one where the ignorant peasants have been whipped into a frenzy. These ignorant peasants, pitchforks and torches in hand, are storming the castle of a scientific genius to destroy his new invention that they don't understand and therefore scares them. And...

The next President, be it Barack Obama or the Republican nominee, will be judged by history primarily on whether or not they were able to have our country play its proper leadership role in overcoming global warming. That's because the next presidency will be the most important ever when it...

A recent NYT/CBS poll, taken after the debt deal, shows Congress at its highest disapproval on record -- at 82 percent. Ouch. As the Times story on the poll said:

"More than four out of five people surveyed said that the recent debt-ceiling debate was more about gaining...

We cannot see the truth without love. Discovering the truth is not a neutral enterprise. It requires a dedication that ultimately derives from love, a love of the truth, a passion for the truth. And the fount of all love is God's love. Without the love of God in our...