by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
HOUSTON – Church leaders don’t need to develop new ways of doing church, Albert Winseman told participants in a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-sponsored Leadership Institute July 1: their challenge is in learning how to be the church.Winseman, who consults with...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
With widespread Internet access and hand-held communication devices, the good news is many of can work just about anytime and anyplace. The bad news, of course, is that we can work just about anytime and anyplace. One summer, as a mid-teen, I was offered work...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
People who believe that young people are hopeless should have been with me June 20-26 at the 55th annual Lott Carey Youth Seminar on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. Nearly 500 youth and their advisors spent a week for missional learning, serving,...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
In a skit on the Second City Television sketch-comedy show from the late ’70s and early ’80s, two farmers do movie reviews. Their favorites included one aspect: explosions. They would say, “It blowed up good! It blowed up real good!” These...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 1, 2009 | Opinion
Most people respond, I suspect, to ego strokes. With few exceptions, everybody wants to be somebody. We like the idea of being known and appreciated for our accomplishments in life.Fear not, fame fans, opportunities await. Hang around the Internet long enough and...
by Robert Parham | Jul 1, 2009 | Opinion
Trinitarian politics is the best predictor of an individual’s votes — not the belief in Christianity’s doctrine of the Trinity but adherence to the holy alliance of biblical literalism, free-market ideology and hostility toward science. “One in...
