Traveling is an addiction for me. I love going to see new places, eat new foods and talk to new people. If left to my own devices, I probably would be a nomad, minus the tent and camel.

One of the things I love about traveling is that it...

Living in Ohio, the words: "tattoo," "scandal," "lies" and "integrity" have been a daily part of my conversation for the past few months. Ohio is a state that lives, breathes and eats Buckeye football. As can be expected, the events surrounding Jim Tressel will affect our state psyche for years...

In the past, no matter how much I read the Bible, I had thought that it didn't encourage questions or questioners. I soon realized that my call to questioners and my previous belief about the Bible had become incompatible.

As I started this new Bible study,...

The dichotomy presented in the museum between man's knowledge and God's knowledge made me angry with its complete wrong view of human knowledge. John Calvin wrote that God gives common grace to those who don't believe. He gives them the grace to understand and investigate the world. Yes, man's knowledge...

As I stood in line, I looked around at everyone in line. Science T-shirts abounded with sayings like, "Stand Back, I'm about to do Science," "Evolve" and "Teach the Controversy." Hardly earth shattering worldview statements. I didn't see any T-shirts like, "God sucks" or "Ham blows." In truth, while standing...

What in the world is an ordained minister doing on the speaker's bureau of the Secular Student Alliance. It's a question I get asked a lot and the answer comes from an event that happened three years ago.

The Secular Student Alliance is a growing...

As a kid growing up in Southern Indiana, I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies, like Friday the 13th or Halloween. Having kids myself, I now completely understand why I wasn't allowed. The last thing I want to deal with in the middle of the night is a screaming 7-year-old...

This past Saturday, a new controversy erupted between two sides of the evangelical Christian world represented by pastoral super stars, Rob Bell and John Piper. The controversy swirls around Bell's new book, Love Wins, which discusses his views on heaven and hell. The problem...

"You are such a doubting Thomas."

Many people have heard the phrase "Doubting Thomas" applied to them in a conversation with a radical believer. The conversation might go something like this, "I seriously doubt the Cubs will ever win the World Series in my lifetime." The fanatic Cub fan would...