Brian Proffit's thoughts along the way
A new poll from Christianity Today revealed that 74% of those who responded believe that convicted sex offenders who have been released from person should not be allowed to join a church. These are people who were convicted of a crime, but have served their punishment and been released. This isn’t talking about putting them [...]
I have historically restricted this blog to issues directly related to the church and leadership. As I’ve been following numerous news services (to find stories for Smart Ministry and other uses), I’ve come to realize just how much global issues affect the future of the church. So from time to time I’m going to post [...]
I’m not sure there’s much more to be said… this video pretty well covers it:
An unbelievably important thing happened yesterday, August 4, 2010. It may well be a date students are required to memorize in future American history classes. Yesterday we learned that the United States is no longer a democracy. In November, 2008, the voters of California passed Proposition 8. There were 7,001,084 of the people that democracy [...]
When Ted Haggard returned to Colorado Springs he denied he was going to start a new church. When he and his wife started "prayer meetings" and "Bible studies" that attracted more than 100 people, he denied he was starting a new church. When he registered St. James Church three weeks ago, we announced that he [...]
It’s official—Ted Haggard is once again the head of a church. Three and a half years after the sex and drug scandal that caused his resignation from Colorado Springs’ New Life Church in November 2006, Haggard has incorporated a church named St. James in the barn on Old Ranch Road where he began hosting overflowing “prayer meetings” last November.
The folks at North Point decided to challenge the megachurch routine and raise some questions about the concept of a “worship” service:
At the Catalyst West church leadership conference last week, Dan Kimball (author of The Emerging Church and They Love Jesus But Not The Church) told me, “If we hold the church’s historical view of sexuality, it doesn’t mean we are fundamentalists or hateful.”
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked the Army this week to change the emblem at Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson (outside Colorado Springs). The Latin emblem says “Pro deo et humanitate” or “For God and humanity.” Like many others, the Associated Press was fooled by the organization’s deliberately misleading name and referred to [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. File) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on the case between the University of California’s Hastings Law School and the Christian Legal Society (CLS). The CLS has been barred from recognition by the law school because all recognized groups may not exclude people due to religious [...]
