Last night, I had one of the most beautiful worship experiences I have had in a long time. We played at a Catholic youth festival in Louisiana, and afterwards we stayed for "adoration." Wasn't quite sure what that was, but we ended up kneeling in silence in a field for like 20 minutes with thousands of young Catholics, all holding candles. It was amazing. A procession of priests came walking through the candlelit masses holding a big golden cross and then they put this other golden thingy ...

My pastor preached a sermon recently about how most of us are addicts to something. Food, shopping, sex, drugs, alcohol, image…etc We use these things to medicate ourselves against our pain and the realities of the world. I wonder if many of us should add our Christianity to that list. I sent this tweet this week that got a few online bees buzzing for a moment: “Approximately 70 percent of the Psalms are laments. Approximately 0 percent of the top 150 CCLI songs (songs song most in chu...