by John D. Pierce | Mar 26, 2009 | Opinion
It has long been said that crime doesn’t pay. Yet some suburban Atlanta officials have discovered that good behavior does not pay well either.According to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, five towns in Gwinnett County, Ga., are cutting out or back...
by Michael Helms | Mar 26, 2009 | Opinion
Is it possible to become a church addict? Now I know “addict” and “church” sounds like an oxymoron. For a minister to pose the question may even sound heretical to some. After all, there’s a certain amount of pressure placed on ministers to put people in the pews....
by Greg Garrett | Mar 26, 2009 | Opinion
It’s fairly common that about the time I’m starting to think I’m something, the world, my faith or my children conspire to make sure I know how unimportant I truly am in the cosmic scheme of things. Recently, I’ve been traveling the country speaking and teaching,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 25, 2009 | Opinion
A relatively recent Internet post by Michael Spencer, a.k.a. The Internet Monk, predicted that evangelicalism will collapse within ten years. The post was condensed and published in the Christian Science Monitor, and has stirred up a brief flurry of responses ranging...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 25, 2009 | Opinion
It’s not enough for Christians to “walk the walk,” Fred Craddock told participants attending the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina’s (CBFNC’s) 2009 General Assembly March 20-21. “Somebody needs to talk the talk.” Craddock, a retired professor who is...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 25, 2009 | Opinion
“People today are going to stay connected forever,” says Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis, journalism professor and author of What Would Google Do?, made that observation in a talk to Google employees recently. Jarvis’ point is that Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo,...
