Lessons from the Baptist Youth Lounge

Lessons from the Baptist Youth Lounge

Do you remember the youth room of your childhood church? Mine was on the second floor and back corner of Manor Baptist Church. But before the sixth grade, my family left the church I grew up in and moved to a predominantly white church in the suburbs of San Antonio....
To Hope, Perchance to Dream

To Hope, Perchance to Dream

Dead silence. Not a peep. This was the response at a meeting of local ministers when a denominational leader asked, “What are y’all thinking about in regards to your ministries in 2022?” That was the moment that I realized part of the weight that I’m carrying. Leading...

3 Reasons Why So Many Ministers are Fat

In the week that dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer in Britain, declared that obesity is now so common that society is “normalizing being overweight,” I attended a ministers’ meeting where two-thirds of those present were grossly overweight. I...