You want church growth? You want to reach the unchurched? Stop the preoccupation with middle class suburbanites and young urban professionals. The fields that are in the greatest need of harvest are the less educated, the lower income, and the blue collar. THAT’S the group that
Shortly before the earthquake hit Washington, D.C., the animals in the National Zoo started freaking out. So did lots of people’s housepets, with sleepy cats suddenly jumping up and heading for the hills just prior to the quake. Scientists can’t figure out how they knew:
A major proposal to address the deficit is to eliminate various tax deductions–such as for home mortgages and charitable (such as church) giving. Those tax breaks are being interpreted as the same as government spending. Eliminating them would increase government revenue by billions of dollars,
Glenn Beck is in Israel, holding a big rally supporting that country against its Islamic enemies and calling for solidarity with the Jewish people. What’s interesting, as Sarah Pulliam Bailey shows, is the way certain media outlets are confounding Beck, a Mormon, with “Christian fundamentalists”
The great Lutheran blogger Anthony Sacramone–remember Luther at the Movies?–goes from posting whole handfuls of entries a day at Strange Herring to going months without posting a thing (and now to keeping the public from reading it, for some reason). But he sometimes puts something
Psychiatrists medicalize personal problems, while psychologists apply the social sciences. Now there are counselors who use philosophers to help people think through their problems: Patricia Anne Murphy is a philosopher with a real-world mission. Murphy may have a PhD and an intimate knowledge of Aristotle
I was writing in my office at school when, around 1:51 yesterday, the building and my desk with the built in bookshelf started shaking. Hard. Back and forth for thirty seconds. My mind went just blank, and when I gathered my wits, right at the
From Bright Young Things Via FamousDC.com HT: Necessary Roughness
Secularists are scaring themselves with a new bogeyman: Dominionists. That is their term for evangelicals and other conservative Christians, whom they are conflating with a tiny number of actual theocrats, which are probably fewer in number than members of the American Communist Party. I like
Some libertarian venture-capitalists are planning to build new nations on ocean platforms–they are calling it “seasteading” (get it–from homesteading?)–as libertarian mini-utopias: [Patri] Friedman [grandson of free market economist Milton Friedman] wants to establish new sovereign nations built on oil-rig-type platforms anchored in international waters—free from
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