Culture
With the rise of multi-ethnic congregations, global mission trips, and world-wide communication, church leaders should read Dr. David Augsburger’s book, Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures. Augsburger guides the pastoral counselor, or church staff member, on a tour through alternative worlds by exploring the care of souls across the rich variety
Culture
The end of the year brings out the list-maker in all of us. Not to disappoint you, here are the 10 trends that I'm going to be watching in 2010: 1. Mobile everything. As the mobile phone morphs into the mobile communications device, 2010 will be a break-through
Culture
Zondervan Publishing announced yesterday that it is pulling all the copies and support material for its controversial Deadly Viper Character Assassins book. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah and others in the Asian-American Christian community pointed out the culturally offensive title and content of the book to the authors and to Zondervan Publishing.
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More world citizens and more Americans go hungry each day than ever before in the history of the world. One billion people out of the 6-billion who inhabit the earth, do not have enough to eat. Almost 17% of the world's population -- 1-in-6 people in other words
Culture
The church of the future resides in an urban setting, consists of multiple minorities, and espouses progressive social values, according to two recently-released reports. While most church futurists have focused on church models (i.e., house churches vs. megachurches) in their predictions of the shape of church in the next
Culture
EthicsDaily.com carries the story today of Richard Land's apology to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League for using Nazi references to characterize the health-care reform debate. According to EthicsDaily.com today, "During a Sept. 26 gathering of the Christian Coalition of Florida, Land criticized Democratic health-care reform efforts
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Somebody did it again. They compared one of our political leaders to Hitler. It really doesn't matter who did it because this is becoming a regular tactic for the extremists. The frustrating thing is they get what they want -- publicity. The media pounce on their pronouncements as
Church news
Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor of Rolling Stone, is author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism At The Heart of American Power. His book about the group best-known for sponsoring the National Prayer Breakfast has gained renewed interest since its hardback publication in 2008. With two of its members confessing to
Church news
This is Part 2 of my interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. This week, The Family is #5 in Amazon.com's sales rankings. If you'd like to catch up, Part 1 of the interview is
Christian history
This is part 1 of my exclusive interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family. Parts 2 and 3 will be posted Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: Part 1 by Chuck Warnock Jeff Sharlet is author of The Family: The Secret
Genesis
Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces: Secularism -- Why Don't People Go To Church Anymore? Today I am beginning a new sermon series titled, Seven Cultural Challenges Every Church Faces. During the next two months, we will examine the seven cultural challenges that I believe we must face
Community
Photo courtesy New York Times This is not a photo of a third world country. This is the new America for some in California. Tent cities are springing up from coast to coast as the unemployed lose their homes and apartments. I have visited countries in Asia where whole families