The Doorway to God is Always Open
here is a scene in one of my favorite movies, Latter Days, when a young Mormon elder is...
Stephen Schmidt
You’re Trying Too Hard
hy do we always try to make things so complicated? Life. Love. Faith. Our walk with God. Churchy...
Resetting Your Most Important Relationship
elationships are probably the single most important thing in life. And they’re impossible unless the people in them...
Politics in the Pulpit?
ore crazy preachers on T.V. Why does that thought occur more and more frequently in my head? Maybe...
Jesus Loves You. Have a Condom.
A group of us were sitting around talking, waiting for the weekly men’s group to begin. I was...
Enlightenment is Not the Goal
My buddy Jill made a profound statement on Facebook the other day. It was in response to an...
You Might be the Center of the Universe, Afterall
Some days you just feel like crap. Sometimes you feel like your life is going nowhere, that you’re...
You’ve got important work to do — and you’re gonna need some help!
As a single guy, feeling the full weight of taking care of the house, the yard, the laundry,...
For the Record …
As my friend, Dr Jill Carroll, pointed out: Americans seem to demand that Muslim clerics rise up and...
Don’t Blame the Evangelicals
Hot topic of the week: North Carolina votes to forbid same-sex marriages in their state, and President Obama...