Thomas G. Long teaches at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and is the author of Preaching from Memory to Hope.
Everyone wants my opinion these days: airlines, hotels, Amazon. How healthy can it be to think of life as a series of episodes to rate up or down?
Men and the church are often at odds. Sadly, many of the reasons researchers give for this are as insulting as they are misguided.
Much of the snickering about boring sermons comes not because we expect so little but because we have hoped for so much. A hunger persists for a word from the Lord—without which we are left to our boring selves.
The notion that grief moves through some kind of process toward resolution owes more of a debt to American optimism than to Christian hope.
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