by Dwight A. Moody | Jan 16, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Everybody knows that church attendance, like many things, has declined over the last few decades. This has been especially true during the previous four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But not many people know who is leaving and why. This is the...
by Dwight A. Moody | Jan 18, 2010 | Opinion
“Leave God … out of discussion about Haiti” stated the second-page headline in Kathleen Parker’s syndicated column. She was reacting, of course, to public comments by TV evangelist Pat Robertson, who connected the earthquake in Haiti to the...
by Dwight A. Moody | Sep 9, 2009 | Opinion
Much of the resistance to any reform of the health care system in America is fueled by virulent attacks upon the government. Angry people, often shouting into radio microphones, accuse the government of being unable to provide services, administer programs or manage...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 23, 2008 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final column in a series. On Election Day—Nov. 4—I drove to Wilmore, Ky., to hear Shane Claiborne speak in the chapel of Asbury Seminary. Shane is the young man, now living in the Philadelphia area, who wrote the best-selling...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 16, 2008 | Opinion
Preaching is transformational: in the life of an individual, a congregation, a community, even a nation. After all, the most effective public person of the last 50 years was a Baptist preacher from Alabama. February now boasts a holiday in his memory. Which is why I...