(And it is not because I am a pastor) When people talk about church attendance, it can easily sound like religious box-checking. Pastors can often participate, consciously or unconsciously, in “Drive By Guilting.” “So, Robert, where were you last Lord’s Day?”  Ugh. But my conviction about gathering regularly with the body of Christ has nothing to do with titles, roles, or appearances. Whether in a war zone or stateside, single or married, I made time for worship.  It is rooted in the reality...

In 1990, the United States launched something bold and brilliant into space — the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer Edwin Hubble. Carried into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery , it was designed to be our eye in the sky, capturing jaw-dropping images of galaxies, nebulae, and the glittering secrets of the cosmos. But when Hubble opened that enormous, high-tech eye and began sending back photos, something was… off. The images were blurry — not just a little fuzzy, but...