In chapter 14 of The Purpose Driven Church, Rick Warren shared some ideas on how you can improve the guest experience at your church. With Easter coming up, he has put together a checklist to help you prepare for the big day.
Here’s What You Need to Know About Religion in America
In The American Religious Landscape: Facts, Trends, and the Future, Ryan Burge, associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, provides an excellent, high-altitude view of the American religious landscape through the lens of the currently available data sets.
Are evangelical clergy outliers on science? Yes and no
They reject climate science but accept medical science, according to the National Survey of Religious Leaders published this week.
Trump’s order to dismantle education department sparks outrage
Trump's order to dismantle the US Department of Education will negatively affect public school systems across the nation. Many public school districts suffer from inadequate tax bases and too greater teacher-student ratios. In the county in which I live there is only one private school and it can accommodate only a small segment of the school-aged population. The closest parochial school is more than an hour's drive away. As for home schooling, in many two-parent families both parents work. Most children in the county attend a public school. The situation of many counties across the United States is similar to mine. The dismantling of the Education Department is not going to improve the academic performance of US students.
Trump's big move in the war on education could strip students from schools
A group that will particularly suffer from the negative consequences of the Trump administration's efforts to gut and then shutter the US Department of Education is students with disabilities.
Students with disabilities cannot expect any sympathy from President Trump. According to his nephew, President Trump privately told him that people with certain types of severe disabilities “should just die.” At a campaign rally in 2017 then candidate Trump mocked a disabled New York Times reporter to a crowd of thousands. More recently, President Trump blamed without any basis people with disabilities for a passenger jet-military helicopter collision at Ronald Reagan Airport.What leadership is and does
John Maxwell has helpfully defined leadership in terms of influence and has concluded that, because leadership is influence, all of us are leaders whether we realize it or not. If Maxwell is right, and I for one think that he is, then the real question each of us should be asking ourselves is not, “Am I a leader?” but “What kind of leader am I?” Am I a good leader or a bad leader? Is my influence helpful or unhelpful? Does it build others up, help them to be successful, and encourage them to give themselves to fulfilling the mission and goals? Or does it tear people down, hinder their success, and encourage them to cut corners or offer less than their best?
5 Behaviors of Leaders that do it the Hard Way
All leaders have blind spots. We can’t see what we can’t see. That’s not an indictment; it’s a reality. It’s part of being human.
Measles outbreak inevitable due to lower vaccination rates, experts say
The spread of measles is inevitable in communities where reliance on vaccine alternatives is high and trust in medical science is low, a panel of vaccine and infectious disease experts warned during a March 20 webinar.The media briefing was organized by the nonprofit group SciLine in response to ongoing outbreaks of the highly infectious disease that have infected more than 300 people in 15 states and killed a 6-year-old girl in Texas.
Related: Amid Deadly Measles Outbreak, West Virginia Moves to Loosen Vaccine Rules, Former surgeon general blasts RFK Jr.’s rhetoric, highlights herd immunity amid measles outbreak; Calling the Shots: Tracking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Moves on Vaccines2 Ways to Equip Women Serving in Your Student Ministry
Here are two strategies to help you uplift those serving in your student ministry and create a healthier, stronger student ministry.
The Surprise Benefits of a Culture of Continual Education in Your Church: An Interview with Timothy Paul Jones
Continual learning is the philosophy that you keep growing in knowledge over a lifetime. Most of the time, this kind of learning is ongoing and self-motivated. Sam and Josh interview Timothy Paul Jones to discuss what happens when churches have continual education built into their discipleship process.
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