When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.

Now there is nothing wrong with ...

Busyness as Addiction

The Desert Fathers (a protest movement against worldliness in the early church) spoke of busyness as "moral laziness." Busy-ness can also be ...

World Movers

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Religion and Change

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.

A Social Researcher's Faith

[O]nly a fool would argue that the church should change its doctrine to keep up with the times. One does not arrive at moral judgments by counting noses. ...

From Morality to "Ethics"

How do we create symbolic virtue? We take the standards of morality that we have inherited from past generations. Then we "drain" away the idea ...

Truth on the Block

The supplanting of sound values by the world's methods of popularity and success may be clouding the influence of the Bible upon our writing. This ...

Shortcomings of Television

Television relies for its effectiveness on tricks, not perceptiveness, complete with canned laughter, studio applause, and special effects--a medium fated ...

The Wisdom of the Cross

I used to struggle with [overconfident intelligentsia] while living in Boston. I would leave the town of Lexington, where my family and I lived, and I ...

No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...