by Matt Sapp | Aug 22, 2013 | Opinion
Last week, the Huffington Post published an article about the Harvard Grant Study. The study followed a group of people over 75 years in an effort to discover what is most likely to make us happy and fulfilled. What might sound groundbreaking to some people ought to...
by Larry McSwain | Aug 22, 2013 | Opinion
Most of the pastors with whom I have conversations live with the tensions of effective financial leadership. According to the most recent studies, only about one-third of American congregations are growing in their budget income. This concern can be all consuming or...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Aug 22, 2013 | Opinion
We can’t help it, but in our society we are what we do. When you meet a new person – at least in the circles I run in, it seems – the first question that gets asked is, “What do you do?” And in response, free-flowing answers are something like,...
by Bruce Prescott | Aug 21, 2013 | Opinion
I am the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, seeking to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. Jim Huff, executive secretary of the Oklahoma Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and...
by Kate Hanch | Aug 21, 2013 | Opinion
After Rachel Held Evans’ commentary on millennials leaving the church, many people have weighed in on what millennials want, what church looks like and who is to blame for it. While this conversation can be fruitful, I find assigning blame frustrating because...
by Terence Ascott | Aug 21, 2013 | Opinion
Many of us involved in Christian ministry in Egypt are appalled at the misunderstandings about the situation in Egypt being propagated by even normally balanced international media like the BBC, and the way it has, in general, portrayed the Muslim Brotherhood as the...
