I'm probably less sure now than I was 7 years ago about whether the Sunday School hour in most Christian churches is the best type of small group. It was the type I was most familiar with then. Now, I'd say the main requirement isn't location or time of meeting, but the ability to speak very freely about a challenging range of topics. Today, that range would include double-standards and miscarriages of justice from the halls of Congress to local district attorneys offices. Any small group that cannot handle conversations like that fails to achieve its mission. And any notion that conversations like that have no place within the church fundamentally misrepresents what "church" should be.
65: Difficult Listening Music
64: The Erosion of the TV Landscape
63: Disposability (We've Become a Bunch of Tossers)
62: Protecting society with, and from, capital punishment
61: Impermanence of Time
60: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 2
59: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 1
58: Bad Graduation Advice
57: Originating Moments in Relationships
56: Perversion as Diversion
55: A Better Way to Debate
54: Holding up a John 3:17 sign
53: Secular Visions of Divinity
52: First Person Comedy
51: Drumming Up Racial Unrest
50: The Most Significant Art Form
49: R.S.V.P.
48: Four Things I Know
47: Hypocrisy and Intensity
46: You Are What You Eat
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