by Joe LaGuardia | May 12, 2014 | Opinion
A friend of mine lives right down the street from her mother. They have a good relationship, and they’ve become closer since the woman’s father passed away a few years ago. Without him around anymore, though, the mother is demanding more of her time. My...
by Joe LaGuardia | Mar 31, 2014 | Opinion
An old adage suggests that the best way to measure church growth is by assessing the “three big Bs”: bodies-in-pews, budgets and buildings. Baptists of all sorts, however, have called this perspective into question. Kevin Ezell of the Southern Baptist...
by Joe LaGuardia | Jan 9, 2014 | Opinion
The new year is an opportunity to make resolutions. Perhaps for many of us, however, resolutions may not be enough. We may need an actual conversion experience. There is a fourth-century story told of two monks in the Egyptian desert in which one monk came to the...
by Joe LaGuardia | Dec 23, 2013 | Opinion
Protestants emphasize the priesthood of all believers, the notion that we are all called to be a “royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9), but do we practice being “priests” in our daily lives? When it comes to priests in God’s kingdom, perhaps...
by Joe LaGuardia | Dec 10, 2013 | Opinion
Luanne poured another round of sweet tea as she told me about how caring for her mother affected her as a caregiver. When she placed the pitcher on the coffee table and settled back into her seat, I saw shadows under her eyes. The exhaustion was mounting, and the...
