The first time I remember hearing of someone losing their job because of something they said, was in 1976 when Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture made some extremely inappropriate racial comments while riding on plane in front of Pat Boone, Sonny Bono and John Dean. Later on Fuzzy Zoeller,
Category: Maturity
As Christ followers what is to be our response to culture? Should we embrace every cultural trend, resist every cultural trend or simply ignore the noise of society? I don’t think there’s a direct answer to these questions. I think the trend of society toward greater sensitivity to race, gender
Our current reaction to ISIS is relevant to me because it means that we don’t understand commitment to belief and we really don’t think belief matters. Ultimately, belief determines behavior; a thought that the West needs to revisit. Decades of teaching in our schools and in some churches that there
It is an indisputable fact that Christianity flourishes when Christians are persecuted. Prosperity is without a doubt, deadly to strong commitment to faith. Many of us by now have heard Louis Giglio tell the story of his conversation with a Romanian pastor who led a congregation during the Nicolae Ceaușescu
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, Matthew 24:12 Tough heartedness is trending, tenderheartedness is on the decline: Studies tell us that there are four times as many CEOs who score as high as psychopaths, in comparison to the general population. Jon Ronson wrote