You know the smell: the one that seeps from your trash can, the one that infiltrates like the green Angel-of-Death smog on Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments. It’s the smell of death. Decay. What you don’t know is that that’s the new smell of American evangelical churches: rotting coffee grounds and moldy orange peels. A recent RNS story outlines a new trend toward congregational composting, … Continue reading stinky cheese in church
You’ve asked me what editors do. And some day, I’ll tell you. Today, though, I’ll tell you what editors don’t do. They don’t make mistakes. Except for when they do. And then when they do, they make ’em big. Like, Texas hair big. The surface of a full moon big. Really, really big. To prove this point and to rid my over-active conscience of at … Continue reading the confessions and absolutions of a contrite editor
We love to make resolutions we don’t intend to keep. Stop smoking cold turkey. Lose 30 pounds by Valentine’s Day. Be less lazy. Write a book. Run a 4-minute mile by yesterday. Stop. This year, let’s choose resolutions we can abide by. Let 2015 be the year that attending church and Bible study is a priority. Let it be the year that you singles and divorcees be open … Continue reading let this be the year
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