The Trouble with Eating Bats

I’ve never eaten a bat – at least not knowingly. But apparently some people in China like the taste. Hence the popularity of bats at the Wuhan wildlife meat market.…

Ketogenic Spirituality

I recently gained an important spiritual insight from an unlikely source. I was listening to a radio program touting the benefits of a new weight-loss craze called the Ketogenic Diet.…

What Is That in Your Hand?

If you had just 20 minutes to prepare a sermon, what would your topic be? That was my uncomfortable predicament while visiting friends in Auckland, New Zealand recently. My friend…

Gambling on God

Why Are So Few People 'All In'? I love the old maxim about risk-taking, “Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” Yet, when I…