The Internets are in an uproar about the selection of Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. (If you don’t know Warren, his Purpose-Driven Life is one of the top-selling books of the past fifty years, and his clout in the evangelical Christian world makes him, for all intents and purposes, the new […]
Yesterday, as President George W. Bush was concluding what journalists were calling a farewell tour of Iraq—part of his Goodbye, So Long, Hasta la Vista Baby Tour—he and Prime Minister al-Maliki were giving a press conference, when suddenly a 28 year old Iraqi journalist named Muntader al-Zaidi stood up and hurled his shoes at President […]
On Thursday, the Rev. Charles Cook preached his farewell sermon in Christ Chapel at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, closing out his 24 years of formal forming of people for the priesthood and ministry as I’m sure he began it: with wisdom, with heart, and with humor. Early in his sermon, he told a story about coming […]
