Okay, so I don’t read it every day, but almost. Have all my life. I probably started reading it pretty seriously when I was about 12 – now I’m, uh, 50. So I think that’s 38 years of reading the same book. Over and over. I’ve read it straight through several...
Be careful what you wish for. That’s what. We went to see “Brave” last night. I liked the title and Chris thought it would be cute. It was okay. But the message rang loud and true that we need to be thankful for what we have. Egypt, Libya and Tunisia toppled their...
Think of all the things you “knew” growing up. My list is long of things I knew to be true – without a shadow of a doubt. (That’s how we always said it). You know, self-evident truth. I grew up in a town of 6000 people in Western...
The premise for this blog is simple – to give Christian background folks some basic language to dialog with Muslims on the most obvious (sensitive) issues. Sometimes in our attempt to be thorough, we say too much and confuse ourselves and our listeners –...
A Reframing of Justice Oh where to begin… I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Zachary Eastburn, and I hail from Wisconsin, home of the best football, motorcycles, and brats (sorry Germany, I ate one of yours during my ten hour layover in Frankfurt—they...
It’s a hot topic. I get asked several times a week what “we” should do about our brothers and sisters in the Muslim world who are being persecuted. Before we go further, stop and take three minutes to read this article about Christians in Syria being persecuted. It’s...
