It was not what you would call a blockbuster opening night.
The sunny October evening looked promising. While a dozen adults gathered for the Wednesday Bible study in one room of the Covenant Pres
The Ghost Writer
By Edmund P. Clowney. Speech writers do not get the credit they deserve, says Time magazine. Reporting on the Democratic national convention in Atlanta, Time told of how Bill Woodward and Ted Sorenson grafted the Dukakis acceptance speech. An earlier version by Ira Jackson had put Kitty Dukakis to sleep. At the same convention John Kennedy intro
Believing in and Practicing Mutual Trust
By Donald MacNair. There is an issue within the Presbyterian Church in America which I believe is of major importance and needs to be voiced. It is of such a nature that it is often omitted for fear that, if adopted, it will open the way to erode the theologi
Assessment…Who Set the Table?
By Kent Johnson. My wife and I recently had the opportunity to attend the Mission to North America (MNA) Assessment Center. Over the ten years since graduating from seminary, I have attended dozens of seminars but had never been so keyed up before. Now that it is over, I have to admit that those four days rank among the most unique and memorable of my minis
Church Planting as a Key Missions Strategy
By J. Philip Clark. The goal of the Presbyterian Church in Amer
The Church: Witnessing Force or Mere Sending Agency?
By Les Thompson. Missionaries have been the backbone of God’s plan to tell others the Good Hews of God’s redemption since the days of Noah. We tend to think of missionaries as unusual – or, at best, special – at the very least, as different from ourselves. But in actuality missionaries down through the ages have simply been people who sensed a special call from God to leave their homelands and cross cultural boundaries, oceans and mountains to establish the Church of Jesus Christ in every corner of the world.
Non-Christians have lent missionary activity an air of comic opera: dowdy people under pith helmets dressed in wrinkled khakis, clumsily exporting our American ways of life rather than true religion. Hollywood jokingly portrays mis