Here is a sobering account from the National Catholic Reporter, based on a new report from the Pew Forum. Persecution of Religions
Rising Persectution/Hostility Toward Religion
The Cost of Failing to Think
A news item about Shorter University, a Baptist school associated with the Georgia Baptist Convention, has given me another opportunity to worry about the way we talk to one another about contentious matters. The school apparently has made a policy
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Perhaps I too easily take to heart the coffee cup “de-motivator” I have about blogging: “Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.” As a delinquent blogger, this saying makes me
Has “Spiritual Maturity” Lost Its Meaning?
In research for a book project on spiritual maturity, I fear I am discovering that “spiritual maturity” as a term no longer has any currency in Christian talk. I spent some time in a bookstore yesterday, talking with the manager
“Have to” Questions, “How Do You Know” Questions
I’m helping to teach a class that affords me opportunity to interact with college students about spirituality. In such venues two sets of questions alway arise. I’m thinking about the unhelpful ways we in the ministry often answer them I