by Brock Ratcliff | Nov 19, 2014 | Opinion
Recent news of the “meltdown” of Mars Hill Church in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. has generated much commentary on the character of Mark Driscoll, the fate of Mars Hill Church, and the nature of multisite mega-churches. My generation of church leaders...
by Brock Ratcliff | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
My school district has adopted a new mathematics curriculum that is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which set forth what a student should have learned by the end of each year in school. While the mathematics we are expected to teach our students has not...
by Brock Ratcliff | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
The Common Core State Standards guiding public education have received a lot of press in the last year, most of it negative. There has been a strong campaign to combat the misinformation about what exactly the standards are and how they will affect local school...
by Brock Ratcliff | May 22, 2014 | Opinion
I was fully prepared to love the new “Godzilla” film. After the debacle that was the 1998 version, anything would be a better adaptation of the legendary monster. The new film did not disappoint. The monsters looked great, the destruction was grand and...
by Brock Ratcliff | Apr 25, 2014 | Opinion
I am relatively new to the church year and worshipping in a congregation guided by the Revised Common Lectionary. As a Baptist of Southern Baptist heritage, I was largely unaware that there were seasons through which the church progressed each year. I was only aware...
