by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 23, 2024 | Book Reviews
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. –George Bernard Shaw Problems with Visions of Success One of the main narratives in American culture is...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 9, 2024 | Conflict
Called to Pastor, Inclined to Argue When I was graduating from college in the mid-2000s, I was encouraged to take a career test to determine where my personality type would fit in the working world. My #1 option shouldn’t have surprised me (but absolutely did). A...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 21, 2023 | Reviews
Who is David Beckham? Is he the self-absorbed, fame-seeking, Calvin Klein underwear model, husband of a former Spice Girl, always looking to be the center of attention? Or is he something else? Were the snapshots and the soundbites on television and the internet fair...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 25, 2023 | Book Reviews
Imagine you are an alien who earned your interstellar passport and decided to spend a day on planet Earth. Suppose you picked a small town somewhere in the United States. Maybe you wouldn’t be surprised by the stores in which to buy food and other necessities,...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 25, 2023 | Humility, Leadership, Ministry
A Rude Awakening Just as I began my seminary education, filled with a love of learning and a hunger to serve God, I attended a lecture. It was given at a nearby think tank, and the presenter was an author whom I admired at the time. It was early fall, and with no term...
