Frontline Dispatches
Religion-less? There’s no such thing.
I came across this editorial this morning. The author argues against the idea of the U.S. as a distinctly Christian nation, a notion which I believe both history and good theology bears out. Yet, the author claims he does not wish to be “tolerated,” but to be freed of religion in public life altogether. He wants…
Is San Francisco Really All That Bad?
This morning I discovered that the city which ranks first in the nation in searching for online pornography is… Elmhurst, Illinois. That’s right. NOT my adopted hometown, San Francisco. According to these stats on internet pornography, this leafy, upper-middle class suburb of Chicago (population 43,298, median household income $81,925) had the highest number of internet porn searches…
Not so much “star” dust…
One thing about San Francisco I did not expect before moving here was the degree to which everyone seems to remember the 1960s. Of course, most people I’ve met here are not old enough to remember the 60s, but that doesn’t seem to matter. The collective memory of my adopted city does not seem to…
Father, Son; Mother, Daughter
Despite what you might think, the title of this post does not refer to kinds of picnics or dances at a wedding. This is the way my friend Bill likes to describe the persons in the Godhead. I met Bill through his small piano-tuning business. Our church in San Francisco inherited an old baby grand…
Frontline Dispatches
I am on a church plant in the city of San Francisco. That’s right. San Francisco. Before making my way up here with my family, we were living in Christian country. As we were preparing to move, I made a sort of hobby of telling people we were planting a church in SF. With few…