Awe & wonder: Part 2 – They bought the farm
My good friends Tony and Susan Cartledge bought the farm. In the best sense of that phrase. While they enjoy playing in dirt and growing various edibles, it is not …
GUEST POST: Encountering Jesus is our need and hope
By Guy Sayles As an elementary school-aged boy in 1960s Atlanta, I spent most of my out-of-school time playing side yard football and sandlot baseball, wandering in the thin woods …
Support determines scale
“I am concerned that more and more expressions of Christianity in the U.S. seem to leave Jesus out of the equation,” said Vickie Wiley Willis, a retired strategic human resources …
Expanding the reach of the Jesus Worldview Initiative
The mission of the Jesus Worldview Initiative — to effectively articulate and advance the following of Jesus as the defining priority of the Christian faith — is timely and needed. …
Reading it again, differently
Writer and editor Rose Horowitch has a piece in The Atlantic about revisiting something read and appreciated in the past. “A former teacher once told me that we reread books …
Awe & wonder: Part 1
Routines sometimes need to be interrupted. Except for morning coffee, of course. One conscious choice I’ve made recently is to reduce and redirect my media consumption — particularly avoiding those …
GUEST POST: The absence of kindness
By Jon Roebuck There is a very disturbing trend in modern American Christianity. It isn’t low attendance, declining membership, aging buildings or shrinking budgets. It’s the absence of kindness that should …
Shifting sands of Americanized Christianity
The wise man built his house upon the rock. So we were taught — in lesson and song — as youngsters in Sunday School. It was a similar story to …
The unfortunate reduction of Christianity to “believing the Bible”
From billboards to pulpits to social media postings, we are told to turn to the Bible for answers. Indeed, many answers may be found in those ancient and inspired pages. …
Jesus and the fundamentals of faith
Just a bit more than a century ago a series of pamphlets — titled The Fundamentals — were produced and widely distributed. With some Christians rattled by Darwin’s view of …