From Christianity Today By Lee Eclov When I accepted the call to the church I now serve, I knew things had been bad. I knew things were still bad. But I never reckoned how bad it would feel. None of the six elders who had called me to this position three months before...
By David Brubaker Nearly every congregation has a hushed story about one. That “awful meeting” in which participants said terrible things, relationships were shattered, and permanent scars resulted. In their 1999 study of “Breakaway Organizations,” Dyck and Stark...
Faith and Leadership By Theresa F. Latini Conflict seems ubiquitous in our world. Turn on the news, follow your Twitter feed, go to church, examine your own heart — it won’t take long to discern discord. This is ironic given the human penchant for avoiding...
By Bill Tenny-Brittian One of the little-known facts about me is that once upon a time in the Air Force I was in munitions’ maintenance and transportation – in other words, I played with bombs. I was trained to work with conventional and non-conventional munitions...
By Bill Leonard Baptist News Global “If you vote for Al Smith, [the Roman Catholic presidential candidate] you’re voting against Christ and you’ll all be damned.” (Billy Sunday, 1928) The election of a Catholic president would mean the end of religious freedom in...
