Frankly Speaking

(What an interesting time to be teaching about World Religions! The observations and comments I offer in this post were put together before...

If you want to get an education, try putting together a test.  One of my projects this week is to complete writing the pretests for the foll...

Ever since last Saturday’s Klan rally and my own participation in the anti-Klan protest, two passages of Scripture have been swirling around...

Last Saturday morning, my two teenagers and I talked things over and decided to go and protest at the Ku Klux Klan rally that afternoon. I’l...

According to a front-page story in today’s Amarillo Globe-News , a group called Go Away KKK! is planning to be downtown tomorrow “to counter...

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...