Susan Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason and a writer for the Washington Post, is celebrating the top developments in American secularism in 2009.  They are as follows: #1: In April, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported that those with no religious affiliation—the unchurched–were the fastest-growing group in the [...]

I’ve been to several church conferences where I’ve heard it said again and again, “Churches need to change and evolve or else they’re going to become obsolete and culturally irrelevant.”  The struggle for us pastors is deciding what needs to change and what things from the past we should hang on to.  When I saw [...]

It’s the end of the year, and everyone (and their brother) is producing their list of the top movies of 2009.  I recently read Time Magazine’s 2009 Top 10 Movie List and was unimpressed.  Of their top 10, I’ve only seen two (District 9 and The Hurt Locker), and their top three movies are animated [...]

What a mess Tiger Woods has gotten himself into.  I’m a sports junkie, so I’ve been following his situation closely.  Actually, I have no choice as Tiger’s unfolding story is featured on every sports and news outlet known to man.  Wanna see the football highlights from this past weekend?  Gotta wade through Tiger’s mess first.  [...]

Rick Warren draws our attention to some interesting – and profound – facts about modern Christianity.  Here’s what he says… The last 50 years has seen the greatest redistribution of a religion ever in the history of the world. For instance, in 1900, 71% of all, ‘Christians’ lived in Europe; by 2000, it had declined [...]

Heading out to Wal-Mart to do some Christmas shopping?  If so, consider these facts… Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.  This works out to $20,928 profit every minute. It sells more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (3/17) than Target sells all year. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + [...]

If you had only 160 characters to communicate the message of Christmas, what would you say?  Rev. Matt Ward is the pastor of Emmanuel Café Church at the University of Leeds in England, and he’s decided to text his Christmas sermon to his congregation because most are students who will be home for the holiday. [...]