Frankly Speaking

This month’s issue of The Christian Chronicle came in the mail just the other day.  I think I mentioned that “the Chronicle” is on a short ...

In the second half of her essay on the Emergent Church (EC), Eileen Lindner takes up the question of the EC’s relationship to the (1) megach...

For many years now, the annual issue of The Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches has included a section on “Trends & Developments...

New classes will begin here at Amarillo College on Monday, August 21st. It doesn’t seem possible, but by this time next month the fall seme...

A few months ago, I finished up an article about the life of Paul after the close of the Book of Acts. It’s titled, “The Last Letters: Explo...

Last night, as I sat on my front porch reading, there were a few times when I laughed out loud. My wife, also with a book and sitting nearby...

In 2002, Philip Jenkins published The Next Christendom , an eye-opening description of the explosive growth of various expressions of Christ...

The Ku Klux Klan is coming to Amarillo, Texas. According to our local paper, the Amarillo Globe-News , a KKK chapter from San Angelo has b...

When checking my email, I sometimes get a report from my ISP that they’ve sent a suspicious incoming piece to the email equivalent of Guanta...

When I was a senior Bible major at Freed-Hardeman College (1985-86), as part of our exit process, the faculty asked us to name the titles of...

At this point, I think I’m going to start each class in the coming fall semester with a pre-test.  That way, I can have a better idea of the...

We made it back to Texas late last week.  The trip to Colorado was a good one.  But after several days on the road, we were ready to get hom...