Wedding has a ring to it — hopefully
If you’ve seen the movie “Father of the Bride” (with Spencer Tracy or Steve Martin), you know how crazy wedding planning can be. Fortunately, I’m…
AUGUST 2015
View as PDF(6360 KB) Gay marriage legalized • Tennessee shooting affects churches • Churches in Greece and the financial crisis • Interim
ministry • Dialogue: Trevor Williams of the U.K. • Small, rural church gets saved • Missionaries to rural America • Feature
on Tennessee camp • Love letters and Christian education
In this issue:
Same-sex marriage legalized — now what?
“If Caesar gives it, he can take it away.” So warns minister and lawyer Melvin Otey in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark…
Missionaries to rural America
MEDICINE PARK, Okla. — From the peak of Mount Scott, elevation 2,464 feet, Kaylee Cowan can see hope for the small towns that dot America’s landscape…
Love the preacher who left? You won’t like the new one
WICHITA, Kan. — Mark Frost drives a Ford Focus. His other vehicle, he quips, is a Cessna. “So I feel like I’m coming home,” Frost…