Author: Thomas Ladd

I will admit up front that I’ve been guilty of some of these abuses on more than one occasion.  Chances are you have, too.  And, by the way,

For those of you who might not know, Advent is a season of reflection that many Christians set aside in order to meditate upon and celebrate the birth

Reading the news the past few weeks has been a sobering reminder to me that we use the term “hero” way too casually. Sometimes it’s because we call

Usually, Pilgrim posts don’t start popping up until Thanksgiving! However, a friend of mine texted me some questions about Pilgrims that came up earlier today as part of

Fred Luter, an African-American pastor from New Orleans, was recently elected as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention.  You can read more about it here. Regardless

I want to tell you about the day I died in a fire on my university campus. Three times. And most of the half dozen or so firefighters

PLEASE NOTE that I am NOT the author of the following entry.  A friend of mine heard about the series of entries so far this week on TTC,

As most of you probably know, North Carolina citizens yesterday voted to add an amendment to their state constitution defining marriage as between a man and a women,

You say Westboro, I say bin LadenYou say Crusaders, I say Joe StalinWestboro! bin Laden!Crusaders! Joe Stalin!Let’s call the whole thing off!Well, that was weird … Have you

So admittedly this post has a limited audience.  Some of you will say, “Yeah, the limit to ‘God made me this way’ is that there’s no god!” Well,