Mike Breen’s “State of the Evangelical Union” blog highlights a trend that should be part of every evangelical community. That is, how does worship impact mission? How do worship leaders function as mission leaders? Taken seriously, this conversation would affect…
OPINION: Baptists and Buddhists
The Richmond Baptist Association voted March 19 to maintain fellowship with Ginter Park Baptist Church, a church that recently ordained an openly gay man to the ministry. The vote was close — very close — but it was enough to…
OPINION: Worldviews and the contraceptive mandate opt-out
Having followed much of the controversy surrounding what has become known as the contraceptive mandate, I was at first buoyed by the news that the Obama administration was going to offer a rule change. The original mandate was and is…
OPINION: Yoga and a Christianity for the body
I’m no yoga apologist. In fact, my wife Miska does Bikram Yoga where they heat the room to 105 degrees and then strain, contort, sweat great drops of blood and try not to collapse on the floor for one and half hours….
OPINION: Graceful ears
Even before my hair started to go and betray me, migrating lower on my face and body while my head began to show through up top, my ears have always extended at a quite profound angle. They are, in fact…
LEADERSHIP LINK: How to make a hospital visit (or rather, how not to)
The following may be used as a role play during a deacon training period at a deacons’ meeting or a retreat. Sam Sickly has been ill for several weeks. For the past seven days, he has been in the local…
OUT LOUD
“We have stories about child molesters, murders and all kinds of vicious, barbaric acts of evil committed by heinous criminals on our front page, and yet we never receive a call from anyone saying ‘I don’t need my children reading…
OPINION: How does that make you feel?
“How does that make you feel?” As a Clinical Pastoral Education graduate, I’ve been asked that question more than a few times. It never set well with me. You can only come out as a clear ENTJ on the Meyers…
OPINION: On faith and science
When reading the Religious Herald the other day, a headline caught my eye: “Study says faith, science not at odds.” Opening the page I was greeted with a review of a recently published study out of MIT declaring the divide…