The TCK Issue That Won't Go Away
Being a Third Culture Kid has its pros and cons. Pros: global travel, cross-cultural exposure, international awareness, and geographic adaptability.Cons: answering questions about where you're from and determining where on the planet you belong. Indeed, TCK life is a mixed bag full of goodies.
Why the local church?
The church is no ordinary organization. We know this intuitively, as even the word 'church' can provoke strong reactions. Many of my postmodern peers seek deep spirituality, but resist the concept of church, preferring instead to identify as spiritual but not religious. Comparing the church to other kinds of organizations is tricky.
Growing up evangelical: A sacred-secular chronology
Raise your hand if you grew up evangelical. Does anyone remember those CCM store displays attempting to lure customers with comparisons like, "If you like Sting, you might like Steven Curtis Chapman" or "If you like Jewel, you might like Rebecca St. James"?Among the peculiar realities of growing up evangelical was navigating the strange dichotomy of "Christian vs. secular" spheres of product consumption, exemplified most vividly in the realms of commercial music and book distribution.
Baseball's situational beauty
At least one of three things comes to mind when I hear the word baseball: my dad, my childhood and of course, the San Francisco Giants.