by Michael Chancellor | Sep 30, 2021 | Opinion
Jim Palmer is a former pastor who has left not only the church but also the Christian faith, founding a humanist group in Nashville, Tennessee. Palmer has become a widely popular humanist who speaks freely about his time leading the largest Christian church in America...
by Michael Chancellor | Aug 5, 2021 | Opinion
“Roads to nowhere” were everywhere in the West Texas of my upbringing. I’m sure you have seen them where you live. Ours usually ran along two lines. There were the roads into subdivisions that were never built because of an oil crash. Or there were roads out in...
by Michael Chancellor | Jul 21, 2021 | Opinion
Brené Brown begins her book, Daring Greatly, with a quote from Teddy Roosevelt. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better,” Roosevelt begins. “The credit belongs to...
by Michael Chancellor | Jun 7, 2021 | Opinion
Ethics is not a popular topic among church folks. One simple reason for this is ethics is about “right” in action. It begins with thinking, philosophizing and theologizing about what is right, but it doesn’t end there. It applies the theory by focusing on doing right...
by Michael Chancellor | May 27, 2021 | Opinion
White evangelical pastors need to push harder to get more of their white evangelicals vaccinated. Perhaps some will feel I am splitting hairs, but I am going to say this issue for evangelical pastors is a prophetic issue, an ethical issue, a moral issue and a...
