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Dear friends, last week, I had hoped to start a series on the Metaverse and the Christian life. I discovered that I was more ambitious than I realized, and I haven't had the time to do the thinking and reading that I need to provide another installment. In the meantime, here's a lighter piece containing another subject that's been on my mind.  Last Monday during the Super Bowl, the L.A. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford threw a pass that made the entire NFL world’s jaws collectively drop.  A tiny bit of context for non-gridiron fans. One of the most well-established principles of throwing a football is that you need to align your front foot in the direction of your target and square your shoulders so that your upper body is pointed in the direction that you want to throw to. In the screenshot I snagged from Youtube below (please don’t sue me NFL) you can see that Stafford’s (red circle, bottom center) posture clearly indicates that he wants to throw to the slot receiver (r

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post sharing my frustrations about doing church on Zoom . "Why is it so hard to explain why physical is better than virtual?" If I could sum up my problem in a nutshell, it would that we all agree  on the basic idea. "Physical things are better than virtual". Almost all of us would rather be having a coffee with a friend in a real cafe than drinking homemade Nespresso over a Zoom chat with someone behind a computer screen.  But it's hard to articulate why. We struggle to explain something that we already know by instinct. "Because physical is just better!" doesn't really tell you more information.  My friend replied to my post asking me a question, "What do you think or how does it apply to ministries trying to reach those in the Metaverse?" The Metaverse, for those who missed it, is an ambitious new initiative by Mark Zuckerberg to take the idea of social media to the next stage of evolution. Instead of