Finding good books on effective shepherding is no easy task
Long ago, Aristotle set out the available means of persuasion: ethos, the character of the persuader; logos, the rational argument; and pathos, emotional appeal. Inquiring…
Reviews
Debate over church music is nothing new, authors write
Calvin R. Stapert. A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: Grand Rapids, Mich., 2007.…
Campolo seeks to distance evangelicals from religious right
In part, this may be explained by a life and career spent far from the Bible Belt — as a sociology professor in the “liberal…
New and Noteworthy – July 2007
Evangelism Stafford North. Evangelizing Your Community: Practical Steps Congregations and Individuals Can Take to Improve Their Evangelistic Outreach. Nashville: 21st Century Christian, 2007. ISBN 978-0-89098-312-6;…
New and noteworthy: June 2007
POLITICSMicheal W. Casey. The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy. Waco, Texas: Baylor University, 2008. ISBM 978-1-93279286-7;…
That’s Why We Sing: We can revitalize a cappella worship
Further, a significant number of our own young people — high school, college — are asking for more traditional hymns and a more formalized (read:…
New and noteworthy – May 2007
DEVOTIONAL Briscoe, Jill. Eight Choices that Create a Love that Lasts. West Monroe, La.: Howard/Simon Schuster, 2007. ISBN 1-58229-664-2; 235 pages; $14.99; 800-858-4109 Using the…
New and Noteworthy: April 2007
LEADERSHIP Anderson, Lynn. They Smell Like Sheep: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd. Vol. 2. West Monroe, La.: Howard, 2007. ISBN 1-58229-672-3; 246 pages;…
Tools for building respect in children and marriages
Recently, an AirTran Airways flight crew was compelled to ask a family to deplane before take-off. Some 112 passengers, the airline crew and the pilots…
Thinking Christianly about the year’s top films
To think Christianly about a film is to think critically about its messages and whether those qualities of the Christian Story also characterize these cinematic…
