October 2025

While in college, I spent a summer as a flagman for a construction company. Waving a flag wasn’t particularly hard since the flag weighed less than a saltine cracker. Standing on black asphalt for eight hours in the summer sun provided a nuance to the phrase ‘road kill.’ It was hard work, and nothing could have made it easy.

God is love. That phrase is in the Bible (1 John 4:16). Sadly, many churches and pastors have co-opted the definition of ‘love,’ and now it means ‘tolerant.’ They teach, ‘God is tolerant.’ Therefore, we must be tolerant. If we all become tolerant about everything then evil ceases to exist. Seriously?