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Category Archives: Joy

Profound Truth, Clear Sentences, Such Joy

January 30, 2012

Last week I received a note from my dear friend, Professor Rick Steele, one of the stars on what has become such an extraordinary faculty of the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University.

How Can We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land?

September 6, 2011

This is the question the Psalmist asks. This is the question for all Christians in our post-Christian world. This is the question I ask myself all the time.

Leisure as a Foundational Principle?

June 13, 2011

In a previous post I talked about how we have built a culture obsessed by work. Recognizing the historical American devotion to a strong work ethic …

The Hammer, the Train Set, and the BB Gun

December 22, 2009

Our vivacious, ever-so-verbal, 2-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, Esmee, told Santa Claus the other day that she wanted a yo-yo and a hammer for Christmas. … Should Santa comply, I’m a little worried about what that hammer might do around the house. Read more»