The Back Porch

I don’t know what fish I’m in, or where it’s headed.
I’ve talked about Jonah before. I’ve talked about how he ran from God, and even was willing to run from God to the point of his own death. God saved him from death by having a fish eat him.
Probably nicer to have been saved by […]

Video by Sam Sanchez.

So, I’ve got to political theory classes this semester and in one, Modern Political Theory, we just burned through Thomas Hobbes’s “Leviathan” and John Locke’s “Second Treatise”. Hobbes is very systematic and starts by defining several things (like human nature, natural law, the state of nature) and then building his argument on that.  Locke more […]

I don’t know enough Christians who are like Christ.
One of the greatest challenges the church faces today is insulation. It is distant and removed. We gather in closed buildings and sing our own songs, talk to our own friends, and generally avoid contact with the outside world as often as possible, with the occasional exception […]