Francis Chan and “The Blind Side”

On Sunday nights, some of our youth have been working through a video series by Francis Chan called “Crazy Love” based on the book of the same title.   In chapter 4, Chan turns up the heat in the book, going after what he calls “lukewarm” Christianity (other terms like “cheap grace” (per Bonhoeffer) mentality might [...]

Is football worse than dog-fighting?

Malcom Gladwell addresses the unseen similarities of the two in an essay focusing on the long-term head injuries professional football players sustain. I often feel challenged as a follower of Christ reading things like this.  How much do our entertainment preferences create and sustain systems of behavior that might have a seemingly harmless effect on [...]