Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Something about that combination of words seems to portend bad news.
But despite the fact that bad news markets well in our day (“If it bleeds, it leads”), a fast search shows this one not getting much attention out there:
Why is Christian persecution in Saudi Arabia ignored?Read it all
Exhibit A
White is color. (Study Exhibit A at right.)
Lots of colors, in fact. 1
White is condition.
Spiritually, a good condition. 2
Physically, not necessarily so. 3
White is a race. Read it all
Over the weekend, in the course of keeping up with a bunch of friends online, I saw four friends’ photos that left me dismayed, if not desilusionado.
You wonder who they are? 🙄
For the purposes of this post, their identity doesn’t matter. 
You wonder where I saw them?
Online, I said. You know, places like Facebook and Twitter, G+ and blogs.
Are you bound?
Chains. How effectively they keep prisoners secured. Rattled by hapless captives, their oppressive clanking echoes through history and literature. But the most oppressive chains produce neither clank nor rattle. I have in mind chains such as bitterness, anger, fear, suspicion, self, and habits. Read it all
Maybe I mean noodle-spined. Or pansy-hearted. Or gutless.
On the other hand, perhaps all those adjectives are ill-fitted to the term Christian.
Whatever the case, I call to your attention the matter of risk-taking disciples of Jesus: Read it all
The owner called me at 8:39 this morning, “My site’s been hacked.”
I was surprised.
I mean, it’s a WordPress-powered site, after all. And I try to run a tight ship security-wise.
So I had a look: Read it all
I was helping move Aunt Rosana back home.
My cell phone buzzed over my heart. I hauled the phone out, flipped it open, and stared at the text message from our oldest daughter.
My cousin Jasper’s wife had died.
To get the import of that a little better, look at this: Read it all