by Motte Brown on 04/30/2008
The mission of the United Methodist Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Should it? Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/30/2008
I attend two or three writing conferences each year, and I've talked one-on-one with hundreds of writers. Some of them are great and don't know it. Others are, well, not great and don't know it. My personal feeling is that writing is probably more simple and more difficult than most people think. Read more.
by Heather Koerner on 04/29/2008
Carolyn McCulley, on the Radical Womanhood blog, reminds us that there used to be one thing that Christians and feminists agreed on. Do you know what it is? Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/28/2008
Last week, Boundless published my article "Girls Need Girls." In it, I talked about the importance of female friendships and wrote about five kinds of female friends I think every woman should have: the intercessor, the encourager, the celebrator, the teacher and the questioner. Read more.
by Tom Neven on 04/28/2008
Hans Christian Andersen knew a thing or two about human nature, but I wonder if he could have imagined the insanity of today's scammers and swindlers. Read more.
by Motte Brown on 04/25/2008
In addition to our special panel of guys in a tell-all segment about their online dating experiences, we have Focus on the Family President Jim Daly with his inspirational story of overcoming a traumatic childhood. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/25/2008
With college admission getting more competitive, you'd expect that colleges would be demanding more of high school graduates. But some prestigious universities seem to be doing the opposite -- they're encouraging students to take the year off. Read more.
by Motte Brown on 04/24/2008
I grew up attending a quaint United Methodist Church down South. The people were nice, the services were reverent, and music was worshipful. But I can't say the Bible was preached well there. Read more.
by Tom Neven on 04/24/2008
I swore I'd never blog about American Idol after the first time, but Ted got me hooked on the show. I'm beginning to wonder why I got hooked, though, especially after last night. Read more.
by Heather Koerner on 04/23/2008
So I get home from VBS training at my church last night to a not-so-nice phone message. It's from a collection agency.
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by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/23/2008
In "The Stench of Dead Presidents," my friend Dave considers the sin of greed. I'll admit, it's a sin I rarely think about, but Dave points out the staunch warning Paul gave against it.
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by Tom Neven on 04/22/2008
Many years ago I worked for Time-Life in Washington, D.C. It was an odd place, full of people of earnest political correctness, well-meaning but clueless that someone could possibly hold ideas different from theirs. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/22/2008
In "Dear Disillusioned Church," twenty-something Katie Galli reviews two books about the church. Though the books are targeted at young adults who may feel at odds with some aspects of the American church, Galli expressed frustration with the authors' failure to encourage their readers to meaningfully connect with the Christ-established institution. Read more.
by Steve Watters on 04/22/2008
Yale student Aliza Shvarts is having her fifteen minutes of fame whether or not all the aspects of her "abortion art" project were true. Read more.
by Ted Slater on 04/22/2008
And then the Lord did something both peculiar and prophetic. He called over a lamb, a gentle creature that had been grazing deeper in the garden. Read more.
by Motte Brown on 04/18/2008
Taxes, one night stands, ivory tower facists, shutting up, and a defrauding relationship. We've got it all in this week's episode of The Boundless Show. Read more.
by Ted Slater on 04/18/2008
It's much easier to simply take a side in the culture wars than to actually engage the issues we fight over. So how, then, might we engage culture ... Christianly? Read more.
by Ted Slater on 04/18/2008
Often times, we try to communicate our ideas under the misconception that extreme verbosity lends not just credibility, but also some ... Je ne sais quoi ... some heft due to the breadth of nuance inherent in any large collection of words, but of course that's often not the case since by including so many words (a tragic characteristic of run-on sentences) the reader's focus may become distracted, thus causing the speaker's/writer's argument to become somewhat impotent, if not totally ineffective. As it were. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/18/2008
I almost laughed last week when I received a press release about the children's picture book "My Beautiful Mommy," a book about Mommy getting plastic surgery. Plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer wrote the book to help his patients explain to their children why they were getting surgery. Read more.
by Heather Koerner on 04/17/2008
For those who think that living together before marriage can act as a "trial marriage," Michael McManus, president of Marriage Savers, has some news. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/16/2008
We live in a society that is increasingly accepting of those living the gay lifestyle. Media portrays homosexuals as a vibrant part of any social circle. Many young people today can claim multiple gay friends. And, in the name of tolerance, many would eagerly say, "Gay is OK." Read more.
by Motte Brown on 04/15/2008
Our friend Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost just announced a contest for young bloggers which I'm sure you'll want to enter. Read more.
by Steve Watters on 04/14/2008
When legislators, lawyers, and academicians talked about the pros and cons of changing divorce laws a generation ago, they often had little to go on when it came to potential impact on children. Over the past few years, they have been given more than enough. Read more.
by Tom Neven on 04/14/2008
Hurray for Suzanne in today's blog. I personally am bothered by the architecture of so many of our churches today. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/14/2008
I was surprised to hear a report on Christian radio the other day that said those who don't attend church prefer a church to look like ... well, a church. Read more.
by Heather Koerner on 04/11/2008
If you watched the NCAA Basketball Championship game Monday night, you got a lot more than just basketball. Read more.
by Suzanne Hadley Gosselin on 04/11/2008
I read an interesting article on Slate this morning. In "The Eligible-Bachelor Paradox," Mark Gimein explores what seems to be a shortage of available, appealing men. Read more.
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