The Folly of Reorganization

We trained hard ... but every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any ...

Prayer Is Not a Substitute

Prayer is not a substitute for intelligent effort, careful planning, efficient selection or people, or adequate financing.

Undefined Priorities

Undefined priorities are at the root of much of our success-or-failure frustration.

What the Church Really Needs

If the church were to lose its hierarchy, its clergy, its vast collection of buildings, its stores of learning amassed over the centuries, even the text ...

Stumbling over Small Things

On June 14, 2000, The New York Times reported:

J. P. Morgan & Company, a bank worth $21 billion, was disconnected from the Internet on June 13, 2000 for ...

Doctor Calls Man's Overeating Sin

One of my fellow students in a seminary class was the model of fitness. He ran every day and was clearly in good shape, but it had not always been so. ...

Bono Discusses the Church

In an interview with a long-time friend, international pop superstar Bono, of the hit band U2, responded to the sometimes-stained reputation of the church ...

Football Games Mirror the Church

Bud Wilkinson, the legendary coach of the University of Oklahoma football team from 1947 to 1963, once described his game as "50,000 people who desperately ...

Augustine on Wolves within the Church

There are many sheep without, many wolves within.