In the first installment of this two part series we talked about a legendary 19th century farmer named John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed.” Chapman traveled throughout the Midwest establishing numerous apple orchards. Eventually, he became something of legendary character in American folklore. The stories had him doing all…
Recently Cuba was back in the news. That island country, only ninety miles south of Key West, Florida, has been a thorn in the side of the United States since the early 1960s. In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution that overthrew the corrupt Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista. At…
Perhaps you are aware that over the last couple of years, China has dramatically increased its persecution of religious people in that country. You have probably read how they have systematically put around one million Uighur Muslims into 260 identified concentration camps. Virtually all of these camps have a factory…
For several years after my retirement from the North American Mission Board, along with my work with MarketFaith Ministries, I pastored a small church in Ellijay, Georgia. That area of northwest Georgia is well known for growing delicious apples. Before that time I did not know there are so many…
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian college in Washington state. It was originally founded in 1891 in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church, as the Seattle Seminary. Somewhere along the way, the university has lost its way.
With all of the secular, non-biblical…
Paul Prather is the pastor of Bethesda Church in Sterling, KY. He recently wrote an article for the Lexington Herald Leader in which he detailed the reasons he believes U.S. church membership is at a new low, and is continuing to fall. He noted that Gallup polling indicates that membership…
It seems that in some people’s opinion, almost everybody these days is a racist – well, at least if you are white. Racism, along with many other terms, is being redefined in modern pop-culture. It used to be that a racist was considered to be “someone who thought less of,…
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