by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 31, 2009 | Opinion
A relatively recent Internet post by Michael Spencer, a.k.a. The Internet Monk, predicted that evangelicalism will collapse within 10 years. The post was condensed and published in the Christian Science Monitor and has stirred up a brief flurry of responses ranging...
by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 31, 2009 | Opinion
“How much is my daily news from you worth?” a woman from Kentucky recently asked us in an e-mail. “I know I am not contributing enough.” Her e-mail arrived in the context of some large newspapers shutting down (Rocky Mountain News) or moving...
by Mark Johnson | Mar 31, 2009 | Opinion
On March 9, a wake-up call was issued to the church in America. That’s the day the new American Religious Identification Study was released. It revealed that the number of Americans who identified themselves as Christians had dropped 10 percent (from 86 percent...
by Ed Hogan | Mar 30, 2009 | Opinion
Can I take a second and vent about something that is bothering me? It is hard to have a consistent ethic when you look at the economic mess that we are in. Some might be tempted to read politics into what I am about to say, but that is not my intent. I struggled...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 30, 2009 | Opinion
“Students don’t want to serve in the local church when they graduate; they want to do something more exciting.” A prominent Southern Baptist seminary administrator made that comment to me not long ago. I’ve been rolling it around in my head since then, disturbed and...
by Rodney Dunning | Mar 30, 2009 | Opinion
It doesn’t matter where, but I came across this blurb on a web site recently: “Our goal is building biblical men who will be Christ-centered leaders in their families, churches and communities.” Here’s a sincere question. What exactly is a biblical man? Is it a...
