by Martin Hobgen | Aug 1, 2013 | Opinion
How can churches enable disabled people to be more involved in the life and mission of the church? This was the central question raised at the Enabling Church conference at Westbury-on-Trym Baptist Church in Bristol in the United Kingdom on Saturday, July 6, as a...
by Ircel Harrison | Aug 1, 2013 | Opinion
One of the most discouraging things that a pastor or staff minister can hear is this: “I just don’t belong here. I can’t find a place to plug in at this church.” This may be the last conversation that the minister will have with this person and...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 1, 2013 | Opinion
My wife and I began rewatching the television show “Lost” about plane-crash survivors stranded on an island over the summer. When a few survivors hike to higher ground to call for help using the plane’s transceiver, they hear a French woman speaking...
by Larry Eubanks | Jul 31, 2013 | Opinion
Theological insight and ethical guidance can come from many places, but I didn’t expect it from a book titled “The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think” by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Early chapters talk about the domestication of...
by Dennis Bickers | Jul 31, 2013 | Opinion
In my role as a resource minister with the American Baptist Churches – USA of Indiana and Kentucky, one of my responsibilities is to assist our churches when they seek new pastoral leadership. A major challenge when assisting smaller churches is to find potential...
by Robert Parham | Jul 31, 2013 | Opinion
Retirement-aged Christians are at the leading edge of addressing a host of social justice and mercy ministry initiatives. To play off an idea from Peter’s Jerusalem sermon in Acts, young adults might have visions – visions of a better, a different world. But...
