by Joe Phelps | Feb 22, 2007 | Opinion
Tuesday afternoon my 13 year-old was walking down a busy street when an unknown group of high school-age boys asked him for a dollar for bus money. Steven had recently been told by someone he trusts about the possibility that a stranger in need might be Jesus in...
by Joe Phelps | Dec 15, 2006 | Opinion
I accepted a unique opportunity to appear in a 30-second “Wake Up Wal-Mart” commercial. It appears across the nation on major television networks this Thursday and Friday. “Wake Up Wal-Mart” (wakeupwalmart.com) is a national campaign that...
by Joe Phelps | Oct 10, 2006 | Opinion
Thomas Merton, the famous author and monk, had a revelation of God at Fourth and Walnut in Louisville, so I shouldn’t be surprised to have a similar experience a few blocks away. The afternoon sun beat down on the group of 75 people huddled around the portable...
by Joe Phelps | Oct 4, 2006 | Opinion
I was a guest panelist five years ago at a Southern Baptist Seminary symposium on Christianity and the new war in Iraq. In an otherwise somber discussion I got the single laugh of the evening when I quipped: “You see, I’m much more conservative than my...
by Joe Phelps | Jul 13, 2006 | Opinion
The World Cup not only created a flurry of new interest in soccer in the United States, it also inadvertently brought focus to the global problem of human trafficking and prostitution. In Germany, concern that up to 40,000 prostitutes would be brought into their...
