Two Athens, Ga., churches - one black, one white - came together yesterday morning to celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Milledge Avenue Baptist Church combined for a Sunday-morning service and luncheon as a way to celebrate the federal holiday that… [more]
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When historic churches suffer Esau congregations
A recent article in an online edition of The Atlantic calls attention to a problem for many urban churches: the care and feeding of their old building is sometimes more than the dwindling congregation can bear. The article raises an interesting question: what are - or should be - the… [more]
A Christian call for urban design intervention
Mel McGowan of Visioneering Studios says North Americans live in an autopia – a landscape conformed to serve cars. Does this fall in line with God’s calling to live in community? McGowan explores the issue – and offers a path toward “urban design intervention” - in this video from the… [more]
Beowulf and heroic heritage
I am puzzled at how those who call this a Christian nation do not want our troops to come home from Afghanistan or Iraq. I am puzzled by the fact that my father applauds one of his preacher friends who ascends to the pulpit dressed in the character of Patrick… [more]
Why it’s unbiblical to affirm ‘In God We Trust’
Earlier this week, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution affirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto of the country. As far as I gather, this is not a change in official government policy. The phrase has been the national motto since the 1950s and was… [more]
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Paul Sherratt If Dickens wrote (A Christmas Carol) today he would change the emphasis on ignorance to an emphasis on apathy. For it is apathy which we Christians fight against more than ignorance in the 21st century.
Charles Dickens and tales of Providence
Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations