by William Edge | Feb 24, 2024 | The Church and Mental Illness
The consensus these days is that the world is in a bad place. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, unless Jesus returns before then. Lately, I have been tracking eras of upheaval and have arrived at a new hypothesis. It seems that more people than...
by William Edge | Feb 17, 2024 | The Church and Culture
The late biblical scholar Spiros Zodhiates told a story about the old Baptist preacher Peter Miller. Miller ministered in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, during the 1700s. During the Revolutionary War, a man lived near his church. This man engaged in personal attacks against...
by William Edge | Feb 10, 2024 | The Church and Work
Who will you serve in your work? We explore why Bob Dylan’s lyric matters, and look at who we serve in the workplace. Let’s find out! *** The legendary Bob Dylan once sang, “You’re gonna to have to serve somebody.” Well, that is true in the workplace. Someone is going...
by William Edge | Feb 3, 2024 | The Church and Culture
I liked Steve Ridgell’s book so much that I wrote an Amazon review without Steve even asking! I highly recommend WOUNDS INTO SCARS, and I occasionally give it away. Here’s the link to my review…...
by William Edge | Jan 19, 2024 | The Church and Culture
Frances Rockmore Velie told an inspiring story about four courageous Quaker women who demonstrated meekness when they took bold action in World War II. They were living in German-occupied Toulouse, France when they learned that eight hundred captured Jews were packed...
by William Edge | Dec 22, 2023 | The Church and Culture
I found one of the most insightful observations about time I have ever encountered in, of all places, a journal called Journal for Consumer Psychology. The gist of the article was this. Wasting time is terrible. As the researchers noted: You can replace the loss of a...
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...
