Traditional or Seeker-Sensitive?
The Missouri Synod Lutherans are arguing with each other about “traditional” versus “seeker-sensitive” styles of being church. And the debate has spilled over into the pages of the Wall Street Journal. In its March 28 issue, the WSJ published an op-ed piece by Mollie Zeigler Hemingway, a former member of the denomination’s Board for Communication […]
“Knowing Mormons”
A friend told me about the time a time when, back in the 1960s, he was asked, as a recent college graduate bound for...
Looking for the Name
Someone wrote this week to ask me for the reference for a story he heard me tell a few years ago in my address...
Failed Prophecy
As it became clear that May 21, 2011 was going to pass without the predicted “Rapture of the Faithful,” I began to think quite...
My Economics Teacher, Bev Shea
The news of George Beverly Shea’s death was not a shock for me–one expects that to happen fairly soon when a person reaches the...
Evangelical Manners
Recently I tried to get started on a book on “public manners for evangelicals.” I have now decided, after several false starts,...
“Unknown” Leaders
In an interview the other day I was asked where some of the “unknown” leaders are right now—folks whose leadership is thus...
“No Problem?”
A while back William Safire, in his “On Language” column in the New York Times magazine, commented on the shift from “You’re...
What is Rapamycin Used For – Anti Aging Effects
What is a rapamycin used for? What are side effects and what anti aging effect rapamycin effect has? Researchers simply according promising rapamycin check...
Hindus in Heaven: How Many?
“I’m just trying to get clear about the basic issue,” the reporter said. “You say that the basic issue between you and Rob Bell...
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