All I Really Need to Know …

I learned some of life’s most valuable lessons in Sunday School. I know that best-selling author Robert Fulghum argued that all he really needed to know he learned in kindergarten. Although Fulghum’s works are among my favorites, I cannot identify with him...

What are the Real Issues in America’s Rural Churches?

The rural sociology department of the University of Missouri asked pastors and lay leaders of about 400 rural churches across that state to list the advantages and disadvantages of rural church life and ministry. Responses seemed to cluster around 10 advantages and 10...

Havel Says Reality is “Being”

From the time he authored his first play, “The Garden Party,” in 1963 until he was elected as first president of the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic, Vaclav Havel demonstrated his propensity for “living in the truth,” a central theme of his...