Dr. Everett Piper

• Narcisus and Echo
  Perhaps we should remember the story of Narcissus. As we try to make sense out of the clamor of competing ideas and political agendas do we find ourselves satisfied with the sound of our own...
  Thursday, October 25, 2007
• Cutting the Baby in Half
  I wonder — Is it possible that in the story of Solomon we find a timely and poignant lesson for today? Here is a question: Are we more like the woman who was willing to let the king cut the baby in...
  Monday, October 8, 2007
• Joseph Kony and his "Invisible Children"
  If you believe in justice, if you want mercy for yourself and seek to be an instrument of it in service to others, if you listen to stories such as that of Joseph Kony and you have any sense of...
  Wednesday, October 3, 2007
• Going Home
  Did we get what we wanted when we spent our inheritance? Is our chosen path as much fun to traverse as we hoped? Have “our wildest dreams” led us to where we expected or have we stumbled into a...
  Tuesday, October 2, 2007
• Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy
  We can’t just talk we must walk. We must practice what we preach. As faith without works is dead so are beliefs without behavior. Yes, orthodoxy is a necessary predicate for transformation but...
  Tuesday, September 25, 2007
• Worldviews Have Consequences
  Worldviews have consequences. Some admit truth exists and that we are obligated to pursue it and speak it. Other worldviews boldly state that there is no such thing as truth; that a religious moral...
  Monday, September 24, 2007
• Do You Really Want Answers?
  Do we assume the existence of right and wrong, accuracy and inaccuracy, in our asking or do we care more about silencing our opponents than correcting our opinions? Do we want to learn or do we...
  Thursday, September 20, 2007
• A Degree in Opinions
  I was recently reading the works of contemporary scholars such as Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, and Jacques Derrida who argue that there is no such thing as objective truth and that all...
  Friday, September 14, 2007
• The Lesson of Blue
  There is no liberation without law as there is no freedom without discipline. Humans will never experience real liberty until we learn to submit to that immutable Thing that is bigger than self.
  Wednesday, September 12, 2007
• The Consequences of a Good Idea
  ...I would like to focus on the power of a good idea, one that bore its fruit some two hundred years ago on February 23, 1807 on the streets of London. The idea was simple, timeless, and profound....
  Saturday, February 24, 2007