So far in this series on Five Ways to Respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail, we’ve talked about celebrating the progress that has already been achieved, confessing the...
I’ve seen some chatter of late on social media about racism and one suggestion is that we might be talking about it too much–that somehow we are “stuck” in...
I am cross-blogging today on a series Christin Taylor has written recently. We often talk about homosexuality in heated terms and don’t ask hard scriptural questions about it, and...
The first way I’m trying to respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail is to celebrate progress. So much ground has been gained, yet we cannot stop at that...
In the spring of 1963 eight white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote an open letter with a thinly veiled reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an “outsider”...
It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This is a short series on “Five Ways to Respond to...
Once upon a time there was a nation which ascended in power and wealth to the point that it was the envy of all the nations of the world....
Today I heard the news that Pope Benedict XVI has resigned and on 28 February 2013 will vacate the throne. He is the first living Pope to resign since...
I’m thinking of four kinds of churches this morning. First, I’m thinking of the churches in Mozambique who have been dislocated. 169,000 people in just the Gaza Providence of...
Seriously… this is boring stuff to most people. HOWEVER, you might learn something and appreciate the work that people with higher IQs than I put into it. Today The...
GUEST POST by TIM SMITH (Bio below) Steve DeNeff and David Drury begin their book this way: “More than half a million people have heart-bypass surgery in America every...
We’re now at number 8 in our series on the “Dangers of Denominational Work.” To remind you, this series was born out of two things: 1) In June I...