Life requires replication. If something does not replicate, its kind will not continue on-just ask that Shaker you know. A 1000 person church is impressive. A church of 100 folks that over the course of 40 years empowers and sends…
Your world is too small
New Year’s resolution: defend religious liberty?
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker A New Year’s resolution to defend religious liberty in 2015? Yes, but let’s be real. Eric Metaxas challenges us in a recent BreakPoint commentary to resolve to care more about religious liberty in the…
A church reborn
On a Thursday afternoon in a poor, run-down section of Durham, N.C., the parking lot outside Shepherd’s House United Methodist Church is full. On the second and third floor of the neo-Gothic brick building, the floorboards creak as employees and…
Let’s share this mess
It doesn’t happen every day, but sometimes I buckle down and cook dinner for my husband and three teenagers. It’s a lot of effort, but it’s almost always worth it and, at least the way I cook, it always makes…
Holy dreams
How your bulletin makes me feel like I do (or don’t) belong
In my search for a church home during graduate school, I attended over ten churches in two years, each with their own different style of communication. Some handed out a tan, tri-fold piece of paper by which I could follow…
“On the Pulse of Morning”
January 20, 1993, was a big day for the woman who was born in 1928 and named Marguerite Ann Johnson. You probably don’t know her by that name, for she was introduced as Maya Angelou before reading one of her…