Political party leaders around the globe, including Donald Trump, are openly flirting with fascism to consolidate power by exploiting economic and cultural conflicts. When considering how to respond to these troubling developments, many Christians rightly turn to the example of…
In post-Christian Germany, Taylor Swift music brings people to church
Grossing more than a billion dollars in ticket sales and crossing five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is a juggernaut of a production. Although the university town of Heidelberg, Germany, didn’t make the list of tour stops, fans could still…
This week is the 80th anniversary of the day my great-grandparents died
The reality is that my great-grandparents didn’t just die, they were murdered. They were two of 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their willing accomplices throughout Europe. And it wasn’t just the two of them, but their children…
An innovative ministry in Germany hopes to share what it is learning about reaching a post-Christian culture
Urban ministry leader Cris Zimmermann doesn’t need Barna or Pew surveys to show him that secularism has outpaced Christianity, that biblical literacy is nearly extinct and that hardly anyone these days knows who Jesus is. Zimmermann sees that reality firsthand…
Here I raise my ebenezer
Standing at the crossroad of two gravel roads, one can turn in any direction to see wheat fields and cotton rows fade into a crimson haze on the horizon. Each road is pre-ordained to the straight and narrow by land…
Two boys prove effectiveness of special needs ministries, church says
Tyler Tooley and Blake Dorchester were born with Down syndrome, but the boys do not let that prevent them from participating in ministry and missions. In March, Tooley and Dorchester traveled across the globe with their church, Alsbury Baptist Church…
The Banality of Evil
“Banality” is not a word that we often hear. The dictionary I consulted defines it as “the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality.” “Triteness,” “staleness,” and “unimaginativeness” are synonyms for banality.