by Ircel Harrison | Jun 6, 2013 | Opinion
Lesslie Newbigin, a Christian missiologist, was ahead of the curve when he wrote in 1986 about the need for “a theology that has been wrought out at the coal face, at the place where faith wrestles at personal cost with the hard issues of public life.” In...
by Ircel Harrison | May 28, 2013 | Opinion
Telling the emperor he has no clothes can be tricky. You remember the tale about this. The naïve young boy came out of the encounter unscathed, but the emperor was totally embarrassed. When I was in Vietnam, I was an inexperienced, freshly minted second lieutenant...
by Ircel Harrison | Apr 23, 2013 | Opinion
Several years ago, while I was working for a state Baptist convention, I received a phone call from a woman who had recently accepted the call as pastor of a church that participated in the convention. She was about to attend her first annual meeting of the...
by Ircel Harrison | Apr 2, 2013 | Opinion
The people of Issachar “had understanding of the times” (1 Chronicles 12:32) and were able to instruct Israel what to do. Wouldn’t it be a blessing to have such a gift – to be able to understand exactly what is going on in our time and discern the...
by Ircel Harrison | Feb 22, 2013 | Opinion
On any given Sunday, there are more people outside the walls of the churches than within, and few of these will be in Christian worship at any other time during the week. Some leaders see starting new churches – new communities of faith or worshipping units – as one...
