This Advent season, avoid the commercialism and the stress and the excess–give to those in need. Give to projects that provide the basics of life. Here’s one option. Make a commitment to give so much per day between now and Christmas.

Advent has always been my favorite season of the liturgical year, especially when I was a Lutheran pastor. The prayers, the Scriptures, the hymns, the Advent wreath, all played their proper roles in stirring up hope in the midst of what might otherwise be a dark and gloomy time of early winter. Rediscovery of the…

Some Hindus are upset with the secularization and commercialization of yoga, which they see as inseparable from their faith. Interesting article in the NYT.

Avoid the craziness. Recover the meaning. Advent Conspiracy.

Thanksgiving Day is not a day about gratitude. It is not a day about thanking those around you. It is a day to acknowledge the One from Whom all blessings flow. Here are two Thanksgiving Day proclamations that underscore what the founders of this feast intended. The first is from George Washington. WHEREAS it is the…

My latest at Adventist Today (Nov 16, 2010). The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University recently hosted a symposium on “Arminianism and Adventism: Celebrating Our Soteriological Heritage,” October 14-16. David Hamstra posted summaries of the presentations at the “Memory, Meaning & Faith” blog. Jacob Arminius (1560-1609) was a Dutch Reformed theologian who called into question…