Vic Holds Forth

Recently I’ve received emails and seen some facebook posts about Social Security.  They vary in their content, but all express the sentiment, “Entitlement my a$$!  I’ve been paying into that program for 30 years and that money is mine!”  And Rick Perry has been getting quite a bit of criticism for c

This is a bit of a re-hash of some of the information in “About Vic,” but I wanted to make it a post so I could tag it in the hopes of increasing the possibility of connecting with some of you out there.  We are looking for Christians in Naperville to form an organic worshipping [...]

The mid-term elections are only a month and a half away, and legislators expecting a shift in control are scrambling to rush through their bills before they lose their majorities.  One piece of legislation expected to receive attention in the Senate is the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S

Last weekend, I took advantage of an opportunity to “be still” for a day at a lovely 13-acre property in the country not far from my home in suburban Chicago.  After some brief introductory comments and a short prayer, the facilitator turned us loose for six (yes, six!) hours to wait in stillness be

We’ll take the first few installments to visit the families of Rome, starting with the main character, the paterfamilias, or male head of household.  The first-century Roman family bears enough similarities with its Greek and Hebrew counterparts to serve as a case study for all three:  while women e

Today I’d like to begin a series based upon the research I did as a graduate student at Wheaton College.   If you are concerned about the state of the family today, or if you like history, I think you will find it interesting.  Enjoy! Jonah’s attitude toward pagan culture is an old standby for [...]

Over the weekend, I got into a discussion on Facebook about the health care legislation.  One of the participants pointed me to a report in which Senators Harry Reid and John Rockefeller were making the claim that the government needed to become a player in the health care market because health insu

Last time, we began a two-part study on Paul’s letter to the Galatians.  In Part 1, we noted that this letter was prompted by the fact that the Gentile members of this congregation were getting circumcised at the insistence of their Jewish brothers.  Paul interpreted this behavior to mean that these

This week I’ve been studying in Galatians.  I was prompted to go there for two reasons.  The first is that in Part 11 of my series on gender theology, I touched on Gal 3:27-28.  The complementarian interpretation of this passage holds that we are all equal in the sight of God, and salvation is equal

A few months ago I was a part of a conversation about health care reform in which one of the participants said “I can’t understand why so many Christians oppose a plan to provide care to ‘the least of these.’” In an effort to help build bridges of understanding, here is why I, a Christian, [...]