Month: January 2021

Behold

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This post is about worship. First, though, a presupposition: We become what we behold. Don’t believe me? Billions of dollars are spent every year by advertisers because they believe that people become what they behold. Why are you dressed in those clothes? Why do you live in that house? Why that car? Why aren’t we all wearing Amish monotones or living in double-wide trailers or driving 65 Chevy Novas? Because Levi’s and J. Jill and Under Armour and Nike and Carhartt spend a lot of money to produce ads to show us how we could look if we bought their … Read more…

More Light. Less Heat

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On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a quarter million people and delivered what has been hailed as the greatest speech ever given in the English language. Toward the end of his speech, Mahalia Jackson, the internationally acclaimed Gospel singer, shouted, “Tell them about the dream, Martin!” That’s when Dr. King departed from his prepared remarks and riffed on The Dream. That’s the part of the speech most of us remember. And how could we forget so powerful a vision as the one Dr. King cast that day? But … Read more…