Sleepless in Seattle & X-Files on the End of Pornography, Musical Reading, Young Men and the Church, and Luther’s Critique of the Jews

In the 1993 Romantic-Comedy, Sleepless in Seattle, Annie (played by Meg Ryan) says that destiny is something that we’ve invented because...everything is accidental. Well, she was wrong!

We are on our way to Moscow, ID, where I hope to deliver four lectures on the CREC for the Epiphany Lectures hosted by Trinity Reformed Church. Trinity is one of our largest congregations in the CREC, filled with robust worship and remarkable leadership. We should have arrived in Moscow at around 11 pm Pacific Time, but instead, here I sit in the Seattl…