Ruth Haley Barton is the award winning author of 7 books and the founder of The Transforming Center. Her book Sacred Rhythms won the Logos Book Award for Best Book Award on Spirituality and her book Invitation to Solitude and Silence won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award for Spirituality. In this interview, […]
A Solution to the Kim Davis Debacle, and the Many More that Will Follow
Kim Davis is just the beginning folks. There will be more Kim Davis’s, more protests, more anger, more butting of heads and shouting over top of one another. Whatever side you’re on, I think all agree the Kim Davis situation is a debacle. A debacle for different reasons depending on your side, but a debacle […]
Research Statistics: 504 Christian Singles on Singleness in the Church
The purpose of this survey is to ask Christian singles directly what it’s like to be single and a Christian in the Church today as a way of testing if the Church’s efforts to minister to singles is effective or not. The survey stops the ministry leadership cycle of assuming we know what singles think […]
Podcast Interview on why Pastors Look at Porn & Have Affairs, with Covenant Eyes’ Luke Gilkerson
I interview Covenant Eyes‘ Luke Gilkerson on why pastors look at porn & have affairs. Applicable to men, women, pastors and churchgoers, this is a must listen for the Church. Luke is the Educational Resource Manager at Covenant Eyes, he also runs the Covenant Eyes blog where he is also a frequent author. Luke’s personal […]
Podcast Interview with “Lansing’s Happiest Homeless Person” Chris Pruett
Episode #8 of “Behind the Curtain” Ministry Podcast is here! I interviewed Chris Pruett, the self-titled “Happiest Homeless Person in Lansing.” Chris attends my church and does a great job of shedding the light of love and humanity onto homelessness. Learn about homelessness from the eyes of a homeless person. Chris is intelligent, creative and […]
Body Cameras Protect the Good Cops and Bring Justice to the Bad #BlackLivesMatter
Addendum to this article: I first wrote this article after viewing the video of Officer Ray Tensing shooting and killing Sam Dubose at point blank range. It’s title was “Dear White Police Officers, Please Stop Murdering Black Men.” My emotions flared at such on obvious case of black lives not mattering and how if it […]