by Chuck Warnock | Apr 27, 2009 | Opinion
Confidence in religious leaders is at an all-time low, according to the General Social Survey. Or to put it a different way, used car salesmen and members of Congress need to slide over and make room for us because only 20 percent of Americans (that’s one out of...
by Chuck Warnock | Apr 7, 2009 | Opinion
In the face of public violence, gun advocates often repeat the mantra, “Guns don’t kill people – people kill people.” That defense fails to take a gun’s magnitude of lethality into account. In less than a month, America has witnessed a...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 30, 2009 | Opinion
“Students don’t want to serve in the local church when they graduate; they want to do something more exciting.” A prominent Southern Baptist seminary administrator made that comment to me not long ago. I’ve been rolling it around in my head since then, disturbed and...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 25, 2009 | Opinion
“People today are going to stay connected forever,” says Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis, journalism professor and author of What Would Google Do?, made that observation in a talk to Google employees recently. Jarvis’ point is that Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo,...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 18, 2009 | Opinion
Every church I have served has had some high-needs members. These are the folks who have personality disorders, mental challenges or barriers to living that require the help of others regularly. Your church probably has some of these folks who are made in God’s image,...
