The New Free ThinkersThis last month has been the hardest section of my education thus far. My father always told me that college was as a giant pile of dirt that you sign up to shovel. They give you a specific kind of shovel, and you bend over and start shoveling. After four years, you’ve built understanding and [...]
What does it mean to truly spend time with someone? In the book “A Geography of Time,” Robert Levine shares his experience entertaining guests in Nepal and India. Writing of the contrast in attitude between Indians and Americans, Levine notes that in America even our ‘free’ time is scheduled. We don’t want to waste a [...]
Not long ago, as I was waiting for statistics class to begin, the subject of my faith came up with a friend. After I explained what “Apostolic Pentecostal” meant, he asked incredulously, “Wait, do you go to church every Sunday?” “Yes, I do.” “Seriously? Wow, that’s a lot.” “Hey man, I love it. I love [...]
The question is one I often find myself contemplating: where is my focus? Do I have my focus wholly set upon God, without distraction? If the answer is “no,” that means that it’s time to run a series of personal diagnostics, trying to identify what has taken my attention away from Him. In my case [...]