by Michael Chancellor | Jun 9, 2022 | Opinion>Christian Nationalism
Franklin Graham offered his assessment last week regarding the cause of mass shootings in the U.S. “America has abandoned God, and taken God out of the classroom,” he said in a Facebook post. “The more we turn our backs on God and His Word, the more problems we have...
by Michael Chancellor | Jun 7, 2022 | Opinion
It is time to have a little chat about Jesus. More specifically, we need to address the divergent understandings and portrayals of Jesus in the United States. From what I am seeing and hearing, these two Jesuses are worlds apart. So, to distinguish the two, I’ll refer...
by Michael Chancellor | Jun 1, 2022 | Opinion
Politicians often seem to act as experts about everything once they are elected. After the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting, the overwhelming consensus of Governor Greg Abbott and others was that this was a “mental health” problem. Before I address this...
by Michael Chancellor | Apr 11, 2022 | Opinion
Two hard conversations with African American clients I have come to admire culminated a recent week of counseling sessions. For me, a key to successful therapy is being a counselor who cares about his clients and finds virtue in their courage and resolve. In these...
by Michael Chancellor | Mar 31, 2022 | Opinion
The pain of church conflict does not go away. Even years after the events that caused a rip in the fabric of the ministry of a pastor and their people, the pain remains. In one succinct sentence in her book Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown explains why: “It’s...
