by Mark Craig | May 4, 2017 | Opinion
For many in the packed audience for the Neal Morse Band’s April 6 concert in Birmingham, England, the fact that Neal’s one of the leaders of the nonconformist City on a Hill Church in Nashville will be almost completely unknown. Another name unknown to...
by Renee Embree | May 3, 2017 | Opinion
People are increasingly more trusting of strangers than they are of institutions. This is evidenced by the popularity of ridesharing (Uber), crowdfunding (GoFundMe) and renting extra bedrooms or houses (Airbnb). What then does this mean for the local church and how...
by Renee Embree | May 2, 2017 | Opinion
Have you ever used Kijiji, Uber, Airbnb, Tinder, online dating or GoFundMe? Billions of people have taken a leap and used these systems to trust strangers. How trust flows through our society is changing dramatically. We’ve stopped trusting institutions and...
by Philip Jenkins | May 2, 2017 | Opinion
President Trump complained earlier this year about the media’s failure to pay due attention to Islamist terrorist attacks, and the administration offered a specific list of such events. In some cases, his complaint was unfair, but the list did include many...
by Lynn Green | May 1, 2017 | Opinion
Every weekday morning I walked through the same neighborhood. I watched and listened, trying to see as God sees in that place. As I walked, I became aware of a place where it appeared the odds were stacked against you. Where you didn’t necessarily achieve your...
by Mitch Carnell | May 1, 2017 | Opinion
Peter Gomes, the former minister of Memorial Church, said in a 2004 convocation address to the Harvard Divinity School, “Silence is death, and we with our skills and talents have never been more needed than now.” His words were never more appropriate than...
