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  2nd Opinion: Being content in an age of ‘more’

  Have you ever been in a place where you were totally content? That’s a hard place to be. It goes against our natural inclinations.

  11/27/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: This Thanksgiving, take nothing for granted

  Look around the room during your Thanksgiving feast. Whose hand do you need to hold tightly during the blessing? Whose chair could be empty next year?

  11/23/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong? Optimism

  In Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation, Gabriele Oettigen claims that while optimism is important for imagining goals, it can be crippling when people try to reach them.

  11/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: Thank God for things I took for granted

  This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for stuff I normally take for granted, like my laptop.

  11/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Guest Editorial: 10 reasons to ignore all those governors

  Fear-mongering may lead to more votes, but fear itself leads to bad policy. These responses simply are an irrational reaction to the repulsion we all felt for the terrorist attacks in Paris. We are called to “be not afraid.”

  11/18/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong? Holacracy and Baptist church polity

  Lately, I’ve been hearing about a new form of organization, holacracy, which seems more adaptable to Baptist principles, such as the priesthood of all believers and church autonomy. What do you think?

  11/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Guest editorial: Rescue me from my church budget

  Let me suggest a different approach to the church budgeting process – one that can increase vision, disciple church members and set your church free from the bondage that sometimes accompanies money.

  11/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: Vision is a memorable movement of God

  How do you define vision? If you cannot define it, you may not know what it is when you have it.

  11/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Guest editorial: The chaos of Christian moral pluralism today

  Recently, I have had two conversations that reveal the incredible breadth of moral pluralism not just in America, but in the Christian population of America.

  10/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: Why the ‘growing divide’ in denominations matters

  Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: I agree with Ronnie Floyd.

  10/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong? Ecclesiastes, vanity and paradox

  Someone mentioned we should interpret Ecclesiastes through paradox, which I’ve heard regarding Jesus’ teaching. How do I use paradox to interpret Scripture?

  10/23/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: Names, faces, a huge ‘family’ & embarrassment

  I’m so grateful God Almighty knows each of our names, even if I forget a few sometimes.

  10/23/2015 - By John Rutledge