by Rich Hansen | Jul 23, 2019 | Living within Paradox
I write this in an air-conditioned room, supplemented with a fan aimed at me. It’s beastly hot. A sweltering heat wave has raised temperatures 10-20 degrees above normal. My local heat index this past week regularly topped 110 degrees. While I suffer minor...
by Rich Hansen | Apr 18, 2019 | Living within Paradox
Just as Holy Week began, astronomers gave us an amazing, seemingly impossible gift: a photograph of the invisible, seeing the unseeable! Because no single telescope is powerful enough to distinguish a detail as relatively small as a 55 million-light-year-distant black...
by Rich Hansen | Apr 4, 2019 | Living within Paradox
When I was about 8 years old, sometimes as I walked to school I’d meet a kid about my age who always picked a fight with me. I have no idea why. He’d threaten me, call me names, even throw rocks at me to get me to come after him. When I didn’t respond but just kept...
by Rich Hansen | Nov 29, 2018 | Living within Paradox
Most of us keep asking God for more. This is OK, even expected, with God. The Lord encourages asking: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to...
by Rich Hansen | Aug 10, 2018 | Living within Paradox
If we all get 15 minutes of fame, mine occurred with Bill Hybels. Around 1985 I was part of a panel of four Chicago pastors on a “Meet the Press” roundtable style Christian TV show in Chicago. I was invited, not because I was famous or even well-known, but because a...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 7, 2018 | Living within Paradox, Provocative Questions
Most of us know the story of David and Goliath—how the young shepherd boy felled the fearsome giant with one stone from his slingshot. But do you know the rest of the story? David was immediately a hero throughout Israel—so much that his fame eclipsed that of King...
