The talking heads on cable news are a microcosm of the American conversation. It’s either a scenario of a multi-personality dialogue, where they are all talking over each other, or it’s an overwhelmingly one-sided perspective of all that is going wrong with the opposition. The far-right has its ideology, and the far left joins them … Continue reading
By Laura Stephens-Reed Fall is (blessedly) here! Those of us who accept that this is the best season of the year are reveling in pumpkins and pumpkin-spiced things and cooler weather and football and…I could go on, but I won’t. In the church, autumn is often looked toward as a quieter time because of fuller … Continue reading
There are many foundational principles that have guided CBF and our health as a unified body under the Lordship of Christ and one of those principles is the covenant way in which we work together as both a global network and multiple state and regional organizations. There is a respect for the different ways that each organization is structured and a desire to lift up and embrace the diversity and giftedness that each region brings to the whole. Continue reading
On March 28, a fax came into our church office addressed to me by name. The fax was a letter signed “From Concerned Christians”. The letter began by quoting 2 Samuel 23:3. It went on to say, “There is a man, with the ambition to become a ruler, proselytizing among the towns and villages of North … Continue reading