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The Most Important Question

How about a video this week? In this quick 2½ minute video, Dave Workman offers the most important question the leader of a group must...

The Problem With Traditionalism

The owner of a Chevron station in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle got tired of plastering advertising deals on his sign. Instead,...

Ron Sider, Justice & Generosity

Recently I learned of Ron Sider’s death at 82 from sudden cardiac arrest. Fifteen years ago I had him speak at our church and took him...

The Fear of Making a Mistake

I love parameters. Seriously. As someone with an artist’s temperament, that sounds contrary, but I actually love when resources or...

How Americans View The Church

The phrase “Perception is reality” is generally attributed to a controversial political consultant back in the 1980s. That alone sheds...