by Mike Woodruff | Apr 13, 2018 | The Friday Update
I’ve been in Nashville for Q Ideas – where the evangelical world, NPR and TED Talks meet for four days of 8 minute talks about “the common good.” About one third of the people are pastors, the rest are academics, pols, journalist, entrepreneurs and other marketplace...
by Mike Woodruff | Apr 6, 2018 | The Friday Update
This past week I have been re-reading two writers I need to spend more time with. The first is Paul. (I continue to work through his letter to the Galatians. It is stunning how many ideas he packs into six short chapters). The second is Martin Luther King, Jr. The...
by Mike Woodruff | Mar 30, 2018 | The Friday Update
Yesterday was Maundy Thursday, and opening night of Major League Baseball (both the Cubs and Sox won). This weekend we stop to worship – some in massive cathedrals (for March Madness B-ball) and some in dark chapels. Why Good? The rest of the world calls today Black...
by Mike Woodruff | Mar 23, 2018 | The Friday Update
In earlier Updates I have mentioned Michael Reeves’s book, Rejoicing in Christ. I have found this paragraph – from the chapter, Christianity is Christ – worth returning to: We naturally gravitate, it seems, to anything but Jesus – and Christians almost as much...
by Mike Woodruff | Mar 16, 2018 | The Friday Update
Word is, the US church has “lost home field advantage.” In the past, even those not attending church thought churches were good things. Now they often group them with the Taliban. There are reasons for this, many of them deserved. And there are implications as well –...
