by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas | Jun 22, 2017 | Opinion
Ian Johnson, Beijing-based author of “The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao,” has given considerable thought to the reasons that Christianity and other religions are growing in China. At a recent Council on Foreign Relations event in New...
by Bill Wilson | Jun 21, 2017 | Opinion
My colleague Bob Dale often asks me a simple question. “Bill, what are we hearing out there in the churches?” He knows that every week members of our Center for Healthy Churches’ team are fanning out across the country to work in dozens of churches...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
An archaeological expedition requires a number of things, beginning with a promising site (and permission to dig it), qualified directors, a strong staff, a bevy of volunteers (here known as team members) willing to pay their own way to do hard labor while following...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
Applying the imperative, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” is central in Christian ethics. It draws directly on Jesus’ teachings (see, for example, Matthew 22:36-40), which draw directly on the Hebrew Scriptures (see, for example, Leviticus 19:18)....
by Mark Tidsworth | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
There seems to be an increased sense of vulnerability in the pastoral community. Not the courageous choice to share one’s challenges and struggles in appropriate and mission congruent ways, but the experience of being in circumstances where one is overly exposed...
by David Kerrigan | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
Before we can discover whether all Baptists must always be card-carrying evangelicals, we must first define what evangelical means. David Bebbington’s 1988 book, “Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History,” offers four characteristics of...
