by Sharon Prior | Mar 30, 2017 | Opinion
I’m hopeful that the days of expecting a congregation’s ministry staff to do everything are coming to an end. Volunteers in the congregation are more willing to take on roles within the church, especially when they are encouraged to do so. So, how can a...
by Renee Embree | Mar 29, 2017 | Opinion
What do you do with smartphones during youth group? Really, we could ask this question for all ages in the church, couldn’t we? For Generation Z (born between 1996 to 2014), they’ve always grown up being connected. They have no idea the pain of the...
by Robert E. Johnson | Mar 29, 2017 | Opinion
We live in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. Yet, as M. Scott Peck illustrates in “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond,” the human mind continues its proclivity for simplistic answers and explanations. In the process of posing and then...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
Helen Zille, the former leader of South Africa’s main opposition party and the current premier of the Western Cape, recently tweeted, “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure,...
by Kathryn Kraft | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
There are presently more than 63.9 million “persons of concern” in the world. This designation includes refugees, people awaiting recognition as refugees and people who have fled their homes but not sought refuge in another country (internally displaced...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 27, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce, Executive Editor, Nurturing Faith Journal GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (BSK) has named Christian educator, publisher and consultant David Cassady, founder of the communications and consulting firm Faithlab based in Macon, Ga.,...
