Author Archives: Richard Heyduck

Context is everything. In the context of a tennis game, “love” means something very different than in the context of Valentine’s Day. When and how words and phrases are used directly and significantly affects meaning. One of the phrases most … Continue reading →

Roger Kimball rants in the New Criterion about the cuurent state of American Universities, ranging from the Ward Churchill fiasco to the transgender phenomenon sweeping even elite women’s colleges. He offers much in the way of diagnosis, but other than … Continue reading →

Steve Sjogren has written extensively on his experiences with Servant Evangelism, a style he characterizes as “High grace, low risk.” In this book, Irresistible Evangelism, he teams up with Dave Ping and Doug Pollock to consider the broader picture of … Continue reading →

Nick Kristoff of the The New York Times writes about the narcissism of the baby-boom generation (his own). My guess is that many will read this and then take a cruise to distract themselves from thinking about the consequences of … Continue reading →

We live in a dangerous world. People are out to get us. They want to kill us, maim us, abuse us, steal from us. They want to destroy our way of life. And we don’t know what to do. Thursday, … Continue reading →

Late last year, in accordance with the United Methodist Book of Discipline that declares that a “self-avowed practicing homosexual” is ineligible for appointment as a United Methodist pastor, Beth Stroud lost her clergy credentials. Today the verdict of that court … Continue reading →

Here are links to the 10 parts of my review/discussion of Steve Sjogren’s, The Perfectly Imperfect Church: Redefining the “Ideal” Church. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part … Continue reading →

With this post I’ll close out my discussion of the 13 “paths” Steve Sjogren traces for the “struggling church” to become a “perfectly imporfect” church. The eleventh path, True, deals with doctrines & beliefs. Sjogren divides these into those that … Continue reading →

Time to get a move on here, so in this post I’ll deal with several of Sjogren’s “paths”s to becming a “perfectly imperfect church.” Path 8, which he calls Trusting, is about small groups. Small groups, he says, are the … Continue reading →

Michael Totten has been paying close attention (on site) to the recent happenings in Lebanon. If you check out his blog you’ll find many insightful reports on his time spent with Lebanese hunting for freedom. In a post today he … Continue reading →