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Leaders navigating the complexities of our world

By Pastor Glenn Pease Approaching the Christmas season in 1972, Fred Putman decided to have a evening in front of a cozy fire. He used two boxes of matches, one pint of started fluid, and the Sunday addition of the New York Times, and still could not get the fireplace burning. Bent on romance by fire-light,…

By Pastor Glenn Pease At the end of a football season a reporter boarded the train carrying the Notre Dame team to the Southern Methodist game. He was looking for a story with a new slant on football. As he talked with the student manager he said, "I understand you carry a chaplain to pray for the team."…

By Pastor Glenn Pease We live in the age of the marvelous machine. In Washington D. C. the traffic for a half mile around the White House is controlled by a computer system. The system is constantly telling the lights when to change to move the traffic according to the need. 450 buses have a transmitter…

By Pastor Glenn Pease C. S. Lewis, the brilliant atheist who became one of the most famous Christians of the 20th century, said, "It is no good asking for a simple religion after all, real things are not simple." Little did he realize, when he wrote those words in his early book, Mere Christianity, just…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Dr. James H. Robinson, a great black preacher in New York, tells of how he use to sit on the steps of the public library in Knoxville. He would watch the white people go in, and he would be filled with resentment because he wanted to read and learn, but the doors were closed to…

By Pastor Glenn Pease The simple truth is that the truth is not always simple. In fact, simplicity can sometimes be the result of ignorance. In science, for example, the old Ptolemaic view of the universe was much more simple than that which Copernicus championed. Ptolemy had the earth as the center…