The Ten Commandments Movement

Judge Roy Moore may no longer be front page news, but his strange political theology has spawned a movement that seems to be gaining headway every day. With the judge as the frequent headliner, leaders within the Christian Right are organizing Ten Commandment rallies...

Are Clergy Professionals

Is a clergyperson a professional? The answer to that depends upon who is talking and the criteria used to decide. Approaching the question from the angle of “standards” yields an affirmative response. Most clergy strive for very high standards in both...

Telling the Truth

The first attack ads of the political season are airing now. Extravagant in their claims and vicious in their tone, they remind us that nothing is necessarily true just because somebody says it. They also provide an instructive analogy to the task of preaching. Too...

Chosen: Part Two

Why did the religious ruling elite dog Jesus’ path? In the gospels, it seems this group attended all of Jesus’ public events. Was it merely a clash over theology? Or could there have been something deeper and more personal involved? Mark Millar and Peter...

What Church Growth Says

I believe that church growth says almost nothing about a church’s faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ. Likewise, I believe that a church’s decline says almost nothing about that church’s lack of faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ. All of the...