Power Trips

For some reason this week I was thinking about the nature of power versus the nature of authority. In our culture, people tend to use these words as synonyms – and in the last few years they have also tended to take on entirely negative connotations. While our language does recognize a lexical over-lap between…

Oops..

I just got a sample of a booklet entitled, “About Being Baptist” in the mail.  I read the book and thought, “Wow, I’m a pretty awful baptist.”  Or, as my friend and mentor Frank would say, “You’re NYTB (Not Your Typical Baptist).”  I pretty much knew that already (when you have friends who are Catholic…