Where is God in the Storm?

Somewhere a preacher is preaching. He shakes his fist at the ceiling as he describes the wrath of God. That wrath has come, he tells his attentive congregation, on the crest of a terrible storm named Katrina. God has shown his power and his might by smashing a wall of...

Acting In Shanghai TV: Don’t Quit Your Day Job

It was 1988. I was in Shanghai talking with university presidents about placing American English teachers in their schools. This was new then and I had already placed teachers in schools in Beijing, Yantai, Shanghai and far-away Urumqi in west China. I was visiting...

The True Nature of Fundamentalism

I want to thank Pat Robertson for helping people understand the true nature of fundamentalism. For many years it’s been a little confusing to some. Even the word “Christian” is confusing these days. Not everyone defines “Christian” in the...

Radical, We Are Not

The cost of discipleship as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Baptists is a call to a radical lifestyle, full of uncomfortable places. This is not a message that today’s American church is following. Oh yes, there are a very few people who sacrifice their careers,...