by Colin Harris | Aug 6, 2014 | Opinion
If you’re likely to listen to any political advertising and media coverage this campaign season, you better keep your dog nearby. The Pied Pipers of our political life have traded their flutes for dog whistles, and you will need Fido to help you discern the...
by Reggie Warren | Aug 5, 2014 | Opinion
It is no secret that many churches and other charities are financially troubled—and not only because of a downturn in the economy. There has been a documented downward trend in personal giving, especially to churches, during the last several decades. While the U.S. is...
by Heather Skull | Aug 5, 2014 | Opinion
I made a grown man cry. No, I didn’t stand on his toes. Nor did I fold up a map the wrong way in front of him or bump his car with mine. All I did was tell him a story. Perhaps I should explain. I was recently at a gathering called New Wine in the United Kingdom...
by Trey Lyon | Aug 4, 2014 | Opinion
I spoke at a youth retreat recently, during which students acted out skits they made up. Again and again, students walked up and impersonated a caricature of one of their former youth ministers. “Do you see what’s going on here?” my friend asked,...
by Dennis Bickers | Aug 4, 2014 | Opinion
A story about a seminary-trained pastor who had applied to nearly 100 churches and was unable to find a position as a fully funded pastor was prominent on social media recently. He asked a question that many recent seminary graduates are now asking: Why didn’t...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 2, 2014 | Opinion
Remember “The Little Shop of Horrors,” an off-broadway play and movie in which a florist’s assistant named Seymour crosses a Venus Fly Trap with a butterwort plant and gets a hybrid so large that it starts eating people? He named it Audrey, Jr.,...
