Being a handsome and filthy rich lawyer, George Clooney is the ideal Hollywood hero in the much-touted “The Descendants” movie, the kind of guy everyone wants to aspire to. He has the nicest cars and most casual clothes. His home…
Most pastors are familiar with people who hate to have their daily routines and reveries interrupted by anyone raising an alarm about anything that isn’t perceived as an immediate physical danger. “Don’t shake me out of my comfort zone,” they…
Change can happen almost invisibly within a church. Social pressures from the wider liberal culture can seep into ministerial practices and assumptions. The softening or feminizing of American culture happened outside the church, but its influence within congregations…
