by William Edge | Dec 15, 2023 | The Church and Culture
I wrote this week on a different blogsite that people contemplate their New Year’s Resolutions. I want to address the resolution many Christians make each year: reading the Bible through in a calendar year. I suggest making this a goal instead of a resolution....
by William Edge | Dec 8, 2023 | The Church and Culture
I am concerned that one of the biggest problems in our culture today is the sin of envy. For example. If person A does not have the material possessions person B has, rather than rejoicing for person B or conceding that “what’s B’s is B’s,” person A engages in envy....
by William Edge | Dec 2, 2023 | The Church and Mental Illness
Now stand in the place where you workNow face westThink about the place where you liveWonder why you haven’t before–R.E.M. Leadership guru and family therapist Edwin Friedman wrote a fable about a row of dominoes arranged in a long line. The dominoes stand...
by William Edge | Nov 18, 2023 | The Church and Work
In college, I remember I loved listening to the great Irish preacher Jim McGuiggan teach.* Once, he told a group of us college students about a wicked and God-hating private in the British Army. One evening, a Christian in this private’s platoon returned to the...
by William Edge | Nov 4, 2023 | The Church and Mental Illness
America is mentally ill. I hate using that term. I prefer saying America is suffering from a brain illness. The term “mental illness” has assumed the status of stigma. Yet, my previous statement is literally true. One year before COVID-19 appeared on the scene, the...
