N.C. Sheriff Bans Sex Offenders from Church
A sheriff in one of North Carolina’s smallest counties told registered sex offenders they can’t go to church, citing a state law meant to keep them from day-care centers and schools.Graham County...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Part of "setting captives free" is helping see the invisible bonds of structural racism. read more
View ArticleBlaming the Victim
From "modest is hottest" to misreading sexual violence in the Bible, Christians have a checkered history regarding rape culture. read more
View ArticleWhat Struggling Congregations Need to Renew Their Churches
I am in a lovely college town to help a congregation discern its path forward.It faces challenges that many church leaders will recognize: leadership, finances, isolation from the surrounding...
View ArticleSwingers Club or 'Church:' Who Gets to Decide?
Goodpasture Christian School sits on a sprawling, bucolic campus seven miles north of downtown Nashville, where 900 students ready themselves for adult lives of college, career, and loving the...
View ArticleHow to Use the Gift of Pentecost
The issue isn’t that God does not have power; the issue seems to be more that we do not use the power that God gave to us. While we profess to love God and God’s son Jesus, we are all too ready to...
View ArticleFinding God in Plain Sight
We looked at the famous photo of Earth taken from Apollo 8. If you remember, it was the first time we got to see ourselves from the vantage point of another body in space.The boys wondered why the...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Moneyball Church
Religion is notoriously behind on nearly every societal curve there’s ever been. Some say that’s a good thing, as it’s supposed to be countercultural.But there’s a difference between pandering to...
View ArticleChurch Discipline Goes Wrong More Often Than You Think
Church leaders, I beseech you to study all sides of the situation carefully and prayerfully before you make a judgment on your church member that may alter his or her view of God or spiritual life...
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