Tony Campolo wrote a piece over at the Huffington Post about the Crystal Cathedral in which he says that you really shouldn’t throw stones at glass houses (in this case… obviously, the CC). One of his points is that the shrinkage in the congregation at the CC is primarily due to...

So… here’s an interesting story… one of the teaching pastors at Cincinnati Vineyard is also a film-maker.  And his first film is now available for order.  According to a press release: “I never exactly know how to answer the person next to me on the airplane who asks me...

The American church is FAT.  No, seriously.  According to a new study, people who have religious involvement almost double the risk of obesity compared to those who have no involvement, according to CNN: Young, religiously active people are more likely than their non-religious counterparts...

Now come on… you have to laugh at this.  Don’t you?  Come on.  Seriously. Hey… stranger things have happened. HT:  The Sacred Sandwich.  Check out more...

I think the person who invented sound tracks and the person who invented youtube and the person who invented that hat all are equally to blame for this. I’m awake already. Oh my. Again hats off to Matthew Paul Turner at Jesus Needs New PR.  What a great...

When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and critic of the traditional view of hell as a place of...

So… I was thinking this morning (which usually gets me in trouble)… I wonder if Mark Driscoll is getting tired in the past few weeks of people confusing Mars Hill Seattle with Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Grand Rapids? Someone to Driscoll:  Oh yeah, you’re the pastor at Mars...

PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is calling for a more animal-friendly update to the Bible. The group is asking translators of the New International Version (NIV) to remove what it calls “speciesist” language and refer to animals as “he” or...

A very interesting article written for the Wall Street Journal today about the way that teenage girls are dressing these days. But it’s easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn’t dream of dropping our daughters off at college and saying: “Study hard and floss every...

OK… now that I have your attention. An interesting piece over at the Resurgence website this morning where Tim Keller talks about “Evangelistic Worship”. Overall, it’s a really well-written piece. But this is the ‘callout’ on the post. A quote by Tim...

The Bible tells us to pray for our enemies. Now psychologists are saying the same thing. Saying a prayer may help calm anger and allow people to behave less aggressively towards those who have upset them, researchers say. “Prayer gets people to view the world in a very kind and gentle...

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers. The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. The team’s mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious...

This comment came in to our post on Transgender Christianity yesterday.  This is really where the rubber meets the road.  How do we live out our beliefs in our culture without condoning behavior?  Perhaps this is a simple question to answer.  Perhaps it is a difficult question to answer....

Sometimes you just gotta post things.  This is one of those times. No reason, really. Has nothing to do with ministry.  Or leadership. But it gripped my attention for all 5:03; and made me smile.  Maybe you need that smile today as much as I did: HT: LOS via @bricebasquez Share Sign...

Former “SNL” star Victoria Jackson is now a spokesman for Christianity and against homosexuality. I really wish we could vote on who our spokespeople were. Victoria, you were really funny on SNL, but this looked like a really bad, really not-funny, SNL re-run. Take a look....

An Ohio church that gave away $1,000 to fill more pews last Easter Sunday says it will do it again this year. Lindenwald Baptist Church in Hamilton draws names to award $500 each to a member of the congregation and a guest. Pastor Randy Moore says the southwest Ohio church had hoped for 1,000...

Dwight A. Moody, the founder and president of the Academy of Preachers, has been recruiting potential preachers at Samford University and Birmingham-Southern College to take part in an effort aimed at reigniting an interest in preaching. The academy organizes a national festival of preaching...

Seth Godin writes: More and more, we’re finding it easy to get engaged with activities that feel like work, but aren’t. I can appear just as engaged (and probably enjoy some of the same endorphins) when I beat someone in Words With Friends as I do when I’m writing the chapter...

Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill is taking it to the OC… Orange County, CA that is. Share Sign up for our Weekly Email for Church...

The president of the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference defended a program he’s put together for June 12-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., saying critics who find it outside the convention’s mainstream hold too narrow a worldview. “The Kingdom of God is bigger than Southern Baptists,”...