Exploring Upper Galilee: TravelBlog 2

The “Bible Lands Study Tour” group from Campbell University Divinity School spent Friday circumnavigating much of the region north and east of the Sea of Galilee, ranging from the Mt. of Beatitudes near Capernaum to within sight of the Syrian border in the...

Power of Community Can Address Hunger, Poverty

This past week a group of about 20 from our church traveled to the Williams community just outside Jacksonville, Ala., near the campus of Jacksonville University. We went to offer whatever assistance and support we could. They, like several other communities in our...

Four Traps That Await Clergy When They Move

A minister recently asked me what I thought were the major traps that most often snared ministers when they moved to a new congregation. Great question! Healthy churches and ministers pay attention to potential trouble spots and act in a proactive way to avoid getting...

Living in a World Where We Embrace Our Mortality

Picture a world where, at birth, you are hurled off a cliff – a really, really high cliff, so that it takes a lifetime to reach the bottom. You would “grow up” on the way down (if you can imagine such a thing) moving through the stages of infancy,...