(Guest blogger: Todd Hertz.  Todd is the E-Marketing Manager for ReFrame Media.  That basically means he works to build online relationships plus develop web and social media strategies.  He formally worked as the editor for multiple projects at Christianity Today.)
2009 has been a big year for celebrity confessions and apologies. The most notable cases:  Alex [...]

You  may have seem this video on the news.  A 23-year-old Indiana man, Gregory Smith, was attempting to rob a bank clerk.  When the woman started crying and praying, Smith fell to his knee’s and started praying with her.  In a jailhouse interview with WRTV, Smith said:
It had to be God working through her because [...]

A church in North Carolina is planning a Bible and book burning on Halloween.  If it’s not the King James Version, into the flames it goes.  Any book written by Christian leaders they identify as heretics (Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll and others) are into the bonfire as well.  For [...]

What to make of Letterman? I find myself conflicted.
On his Late Show program Thursday night, David Letterman relayed the true story of a blackmail attempt against  him for $2 Million, starting about three weeks ago. Letterman’s response was both to have the extortioner arrested and, presumably to pull the teeth out of any future threats, [...]

I always have mixed emotions every year when Outreach Magazine releases it list of America’s 100 largest and fastest growing churches.
It’s intriguing to see where these churches are and of course I’m always curious to see which ones around me, if any, made the list. For example, for the first time a church I [...]

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 [...]

It’s probably a dream scenario for most churches in this economy.  A sudden, unexpected gift of $70,000 just shows up in the collection plate.
The 25 member Covenant Life Worship Center in Haslett, Michigan, is in just this position.  But they’re stuck in an interesting predicament.  The money comes in the form of a winning lottery [...]

I’ve been looking for a meaningful but concise overview of a biblical perspective on health care reform, and this petition from Sojourners is the best I’ve found. I signed it and encourage other Christians to do so. And I encourage all readers to comment about whether this statement articulates your Christian convictions as they relate [...]

A blog post this morning from Phil Cooke, got me thinking a little more about something that happened over the weekend. You may have heard about the Continental Express flight where passengers were stuck in a plane overnight for nine hours.  Much of that time was sitting on the tarmac 50 yards away from a [...]

Earlier this month, when visitors came to the largest video game conference in the U.S., they were greeted by protesters.  The group of people were Christians who were upset at the release of a new video game called Dante’s Inferno.  At least that’s what the video game developer, Electronic Arts, wanted you to think.
As Phil [...]