Monday's News & Ideas
- Seminaries under pressure
- Craigslist: ‘Need mystery worshipper’
- The miracles are window dressing
- Skip the revenge movies
- God at the office
- We have met the enemy
Tom Arthur: To have a church building or not?
Do bricks and mortar help or hinder mission?
Friday's News & Ideas
- Obama in the lion’s den
- Do-gooder trap: They need MY help
- Aging brains and silver tsunami
- Sports fanatics
- Collegial leadership
- The light in midwinter
Allegra Jordan: Solving the right problem
The problems of war, poverty, and disease pierced Maggy Barankitse like the nails of Calvary. She took those nails, picked up a hammer, and began to pound them into the foundations of a house of peace.
Thursday's News & Ideas
- Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast
- Tolerance is a ‘negative virtue’
- New plan for closed church: Move ‘em
- Charismatic renewal at 50
- Copeland - United Theological partnership
- Umbilical wire
Norman Sandridge: The limitations of metaphors for leadership
There may not be a perfect metaphor for leadership. Does "shepherd" really work?
Wednesday's News & Ideas
- Adoption as evangelism
- Rob Bell on preaching
- Bold risks produce bold innovation
- Father knows best
- #1 preacher: Billy Graham
- Spray-on macho
Jenny Williams: More entertainment or the gospel?
“Idiocracy” and “Fahrenheit 451” both predict a future without reading. The church can be another future -- through resistance, treasuring wisdom, and dirt.
Jason Byassee: A blessing, father
Catholic ordination grants the power to bless, courtesy of the communion of the saints
Tuesday's News & Ideas
- Bailing on Obama
- Apple’s approach to innovation
- ‘Where feet, fist and faith collide’
- Abstinence works?
- House ball
- Time flies
Prince Raney Rivers: What comes after "contemporary" worship? The return of "traditional"
The usual story is of a pastor who staunches a church’s decline by introducing “contemporary” worship. But Macedonia Baptist in Pittsburgh capped its growth with a return to “traditional.”
Cynthia Weems: Leadership and betrayal
We cannot let those we lead override what needs doing. But we can give them voice so enough that they won’t feel betrayed.
Monday's News & Ideas
- Wealth isn’t money
- Retiring bishop concedes stagnation
- First Church of Doritos
- Tough times in Crystal City
- Catholic mergers in Jersey
- ‘A very fulfilling life’
Anthony B. Robinson: Leaders are stewards of a (hopefully clear) mission
What do we do when a sense of mission is elusive, ignored, too much about us and not enough about God, or opposed by a small but vocal power bloc?
Michael O. Emerson: Cracks in the Christian color wall
Large Protestant churches are more than twice as likely to be multiracial now compared to a decade ago. Why is that? And what does it mean for the rest of us?
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