Source: What Does God Expect Of Me?

Every person and organization goes through a period of transition. We are facing one in the organization I serve.  As part of that...

“ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellences of...

Having feelings isn’t a sign of weakness — they mean we’re human, says producer and activist Nikki Webber Allen. Even after being...

John Donne, a 17th-century poet, experienced great pain. Because he married the daughter of a disapproving lord, he was fired from his...

In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn] recalled the words he heard as a...

Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being,...

One of the most vital challenges congregations face now are how do you involve the people in the pew and motivate them to use their gifts...

Between 2008 and 2016, the United States deported more than three million people. What happens to those left behind? Journalist Duarte...

People are seeing football players kneeling during the National Anthem and are getting upset,  turning off their televisions, demanding...

Is there a place for passion in the Christian life?  That is an interesting question.  I love this illustration. There is a tale told of...

In an unmissable talk about race and politics in America, Theo E.J. Wilson tells the story of becoming Lucius25, white supremacist...

Stop me if you have heard this: “We are a dying church.  The average age of our congregation is in the sixty plus range. We need young...

In the first post, we painted the picture of what it looks like when vision and relationships are driving the direction of the church. ...

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how...

Mistake Aaron Malone in writing about the Steve Young and the San Francisco 49ers win had this headline, “Super Bowl XXIX: Steve Young...

Someone once penned these words, Out of the Darkness Out of the dark forbidding soil The pure white lilies grow. Out of the black and...

In my work with congregations for over twenty years and before that studying to become a systems analyst I had to learn to identify and...

Underneath every shiny new mega city, there’s often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin Adegbeye...

Meet and greet are opportunities for you to give people a chance to know more about you. It also gives you the opportunity to promote...