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“My kids have to go through active shooter drills in school just to learn. Am I going to have to go through active shooter drills in church just to pray?” That’s the question pastors, priests, [...]
Richard Stinson is dead. I wanted this New Year’s column to brim with hope for a brighter tomorrow, lifting our spirits after a holiday season of inside sports, such as competitive eating and politics. A [...]
The new movie, “The Lion King,” is an achievement in animation, but the appeal is more than technological wonder. The story is perennial truth that catches us off guard because we think we are merely [...]
There’s always a story behind the story. A man broke into a house last month in a Lake Highlands neighborhood. He couldn’t have missed that they had a security system. Nonetheless, he smashed a window in [...]
What’s faith for? Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose a man in your neighborhood stole your car. Suppose he flaunted his theft by driving it around the neighborhood and claiming it as his own. Over [...]
Both/and Bronze statuette of justice. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t. The temptation to see the [...]
Photo by Danny Fulgencio Religion travels a two-way road that moves traffic from earth to heaven and from heaven to earth. Or maybe it’s a staircase, not a road. It’s more like the [...]
Faith in the future “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” Winston Churchill’s pithy point isn’t lost on the church these days. In case you’ve missed it, the Lakewood Advocate reported this month on [...]
Let’s have more porch time this year. I know it’s January, and we’ll probably be huddled by fireplaces more than spread out on the porch, but “porching” is spiritual strategy as much as a physical [...]
Wilshire Baptist Church senior pastor George Mason writes monthly missives meant to provoke. He was a father of three teenagers when the Advocate worship column commenced. He is now a grandfather. Through seasons of life, [...]
