I just read this fascinating New York Times article about missionaries to Islamic communities. There is a dispute about whether it is deceptive to present Christian beliefs about God and Jesus using concepts of Allah and Isa from the Koran. Those who use the strategy believe that it explains our beliefs about God in a [...]

I’ve read two articles recently focusing on how Christians can come together to support a larger cause when it comes to making sacrifices or showing compassion for Lent.
A group of Anglican British bishops are urging Christians to reduce their carbon footprint during Lent.  According to the USA Today, the bishops are asking people to at [...]

I recently encountered this blog post by a Christian psychologist Richard Beck.  He writes, provocatively, “The single most damaging phenomenon to the witness of Christianity in America today is the collective behavior of the Sunday morning lunch crowd. Never has a more well-dressed, entitled, dismissive, haughty or cheap collection of Christians been seen on the [...]

In this Walk the Way video, Pastor Jeff Klein is talking about how his 8-year-old son was embarrassed to write a simple sentence for his spelling homework.  He was tasked with using the word saved.  Jeff suggested, and his son quickly rejected, the sentence: “Jesus saved me.”
It brings up a lot of questions.  Where does [...]

One of our recent polls asked for your general thoughts about online church.  The vast majority of you said you’d like online church to disappear from our culture just like hypercolor t-shirts.  It’s an argument I understand.  There is a lot of debate on whether online community is as genuine as in person relationships.
And good [...]

The best selling book of 1955 was Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking. I recently read parts of the book as part of some research I was doing on that era. There are a lot of things about Peale’s version of Christianity that troubled me, and here is one example:
Just as there exist [...]

Rolling Hills Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA has received a lot of press lately for the decision to sell its brand new building and use the money to take care of those in need in the community. The $1.4 million dollar new facility is nearly paid off, but the congregation overwhelmingly voted to put the [...]

Joel Rubinson says that, in this down economy, businesses should focus on being a friend to people. People feel the recession is a crisis much like a natural disaster or epidemic. Uncertainty and anxiety reign.
Smart businesses, therefore, will position themselves as friends and neighbors who are there to help. He cites Hyundai’s offer to take [...]

(Quick Thought is a new feature, providing a quick post for you to respond to with your first reactions and thoughts.  The goal is to keep comments short, too.  Maybe a couple sentences but no more than 100 words or so.  Let’s see where the conversation goes!)
“Pre-existing conditions accepted.”
I saw that on a spam fax [...]

At first I shook my head.  Then I started to laugh.  Finally a co-worker helped me realize he’s evangelizing to someone who is already a believer.
Stick with the whole thing (it gets good about a minute in) and share your thoughts.
(Thanks to Matthew Paul Turner for originally posting this on his blog.)