“As church leaders, we can either be a part of the movie conversation or we can ignore the conversation; but the talk is going to grow louder and more overwhelming in the years ahead. I say we join in!...

Want quick immersion into pop culture? Attend a comics convention. Our soccer-mom senior copy editor did and was strangely transfixed …Comics are powered by “a longing for the fantastic, the superna...

"The pews at Capital Baptist Church here don't provide much room to move, but lack of space didn't stop about 150 people from rising to their feet on a recent Saturday morning and taking a few jabs and uppercut...

First, a bit of consumer self-disclosure. I sit, this Nashville morning, in the Freon cool of a Borders café, wearing a wrinkled oxford-cloth shirt, dingy cargo shorts, and flip-flops. My BlackBerry Pearl...

"For the first time in the nation's history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6...

While I was writing The Culturally Savvy Christian, people would ask what it was about. I would say something like this:“We live in a superficial, popular culture, soulless, spiritually delusional, and dr...

I am new to Youthworker forums. Has Barry Shafer posted a response to this letter anywhere on the website? ...

You don’t have to be of the generation that walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow to be able to say, “Things were different back when I was in college.”Truth is, today’s studen...

You know the story. Jesus and His disciples passed through Samaria en route to Galilee. The disciples went into town to get some Doritos and Dew. Jesus plopped down to rest and struck up a conversation with a l...

"Preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast were 14 percent lower than the least-watched ceremony ever, according to Nielsen Media Research." Read Story     ...