by Joell Haugan | Jul 13, 2017 | Opinion
“Missional” is a bit of a buzzword these days in Christian thinking circles, as churches struggle with what it means to be “the church” in the 21st century. For sure, Christ wasn’t mincing words when he spoke the Great Commission just...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 12, 2017 | Opinion
In the following posts I offer “virtual visitors” a chance to travel along with Susan and me as we visit new places, learn new things, and experience cultures other than our own. I will try to make them more entertaining than Uncle Ed’s slides about...
by Craig Janney | Jul 12, 2017 | Opinion
Consultants and commentators have been pushing churches and ministers to consider bivocational ministry in light of shrinking budgets, bulky campuses, dry baptismal pools, aging congregants and emptying pews. Cooperative Baptists are resisting the mainstream...
by Jason Knight | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
My decision to enter divinity school was long in the making. So long, in fact, that before I decided to do it, my legal career was well into double-digit years. In addition, at that point in my life, Amy (my wife) and I had been married 16 years and were raising our...
by Mark Tidsworth | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
Politics doesn’t drive culture but is an expression of cultural change. With that point of view, we can easily observe that American culture is in a season of great flux. Familiar political categories are deconstructing before our eyes, while new categories are...
by David Swartz | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
My research on the anti-trafficking movement in Thailand primarily tracked U.S. Christian networks. As I suspected, the many missionaries and humanitarians I interviewed represented remarkable diversity. Some, horrified by sex trafficking, emoted like the passionate...
