— 1 — Happy Friday! I am not generally a TGIF type – I like my jobs, and weekends tend to be busier than I’d like a lot of the time anyway – but for this season, Fridays are my Sabbath(ish) day, and it is so good to be sitting down with a strong cup…
In case you are just catching this series, I’d like to take a minute to backtrack a bit, because the past few posts I’ve written lay some important groundwork for this conversation. I started by talking about the distinctions between gossip, slander, and information, and how to discern into which of those categories an article or…
Last week, I started talking about the differences between gossip, slander, and information, particularly in regards to “famous” Christians, and how to determine which category what you’re reading about them might fall into. Then I talked a little bit about the implications of those definitions for the way that we respond when we read something about a “scandal”…
Earlier this week, I talked about the differences between gossip, slander, and information (and threw in a seemingly random definition for advice); today I’d like to talk about the implications of these definitions for how we should respond when we hear “news” about famous church people, particularly when that “news” involves some sort of “scandal” or “outrage.” Here’s…
I’ve been thinking about all of this for awhile, watching the headlines and the articles and the conversations that have popped up in my Facebook newsfeed over the past few weeks. It seems there are “scandals” pretty much everywhere in North American Christendom right now. Michael Gungor might be an evolutionist. Mark Driscoll should probably resign….
