Opinion

• What Kind of Difference Do You Want to Make? If we ignore politics, we consign ourselves to living in a society forged by a process in which we did not participate. As Daniel Webster noted, “Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.”... Aug 24, 2023

  

  What Kind of Difference Do You Want to Make?
• The Last Book Read It has led to pastors who lurch their church from model to model, emphasis to emphasis. It has led thinkers to go from theological persuasion to persuasion, conviction to conviction. It has led ministries and staff to fear the... Aug 24, 2023

  

  The Last Book Read
• We Need to Invert the Modern Missions Model of the Last Century The world and its geo-political sensitivities are far different from the last century. While industries, businesses, and politicians have to contend with phenomenal changes, it appears that Western churches and missions are... Aug 23, 2023

  

  We Need to Invert the Modern Missions Model of the Last Century
• What's Behind America's 'Great Dechurching'? Faith, particularly Christian faith, is an irreplaceable force for good in society. Its decline will leave America less healthy, less charitable, less connected, and less capable of dealing with major social ills without... Aug 23, 2023

  What's Behind America's 'Great Dechurching'?
• Good Enough Is Not Good Enough for God If you’re like me, there’s a tiny voice in your mind assuring you that you’re somehow different. Airline crashes are extremely rare and happen to other people; the Maui wildfires and Ukrainian conflict are likely thousands of... Aug 23, 2023

  Good Enough Is Not Good Enough for God
• How Can Christians Aid Pakistanis Facing Persecution? Perhaps you’ve heard the news. Fires torching hundreds of properties. Entire households burned to the ground. Every personal belonging lost. Thousands of lives destroyed. The devastation has been unprecedented, and it will take... Aug 22, 2023

  How Can Christians Aid Pakistanis Facing Persecution?
• 5 Crucial Lessons I Learned from Planting a Church Westside Christian Fellowship in Southern California arose from a desperate need to encourage Christians to seek God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. The overwhelming response simply reflects the need that we all... Aug 22, 2023

  5 Crucial Lessons I Learned from Planting a Church
• A Reflection on the Future of Our Democracy The future of our democracy depends on the moral transformation of our people. As the only light in a dark world (Matthew 5:14-16), this process starts with us. But we must be changed to be the change we need to see. We must... Aug 22, 2023

  A Reflection on the Future of Our Democracy
• You Are Your Body Are bodies something we merely “have,” or are our bodies essential to who we are? Aug 22, 2023

  You Are Your Body
• Till We Have Faces: Our Digital Veils Keep Us from Being Known and Loved Our “digital veils” function as a source of power and control, in a way depicted long ago in C.S. Lewis’s classic, Till We Have Faces. The main character and narrator in the story is Orual, the unattractive and tomboyish older... Aug 21, 2023

  Till We Have Faces: Our Digital Veils Keep Us from Being Known and Loved