Millennials are leaving the cities and finding “home” in small towns and rural areas. That’s the latest trend reported by recent research. The young adults, born from 1981 to 1996, are no longer finding urban centers and metro areas attractive. Why? They’re looking for community and opportunity. 30,000 Millennials left metro areas in 2018, the […]
2020 national convention promises collision of ideas
The growing fractures underlying evangelicalism run beneath Southern Baptists as well. And in today’s political and cultural environment, they appear to be widening. If a task force appointed by the SBC Executive Committee to study actions of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the flash point, then the Orlando Convention could witness the broader […]
When dads cry
In a recent IBSA chapel when Nate Adams told the story his son’s coming home after a season away from God, there were sniffles. When he invited others to share stories of their own children who had returned, there were tears. And as expected, from my back-row seat, I could see our dear friend Pat […]
Who do you trust? Clergy join journalists in the middle
Religious leaders fared OK in a recent survey on Americans’ trust for public figures, but not as well as they used to. Pew Research called the results in five areas of clergy trust “in general… positive,” but it is noteworthy that pastors are now in the middle of the pack with journalists. Heads of technology […]
A Christmas essay: What the world needs now
Tourists packing into the tiny mausoleum at Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy must be disappointed at first. Billed as the most spectacular and best-preserved mosaic in Christendom, the ceiling depicts Jesus surrounded by sheep in a green pasture. Travel guides and academics alike hail its artistic beauty. The mosaic was commissioned by a Roman emperor […]
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