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.
31: Teaching teens with T&A
30: Establishment of religion
29: My prayer for a football game
28: Capitalism in the realm of ideas
27: Possible World Theory
26: Labor Day, work stories
25: Questions we ought to ask ourselves
24: Elections are not horse races
23: Laws of Motion
22: Art and the strange bedfellows
21: Permanent Things that I believe
20: Reading ‘Chapter And Verse’ on what I don't believe
19: Why football is still just soccer to Americans
18: Qualifications to be president
17: Majority rule and minority experience
16: Whether we take fathers for granted, or loss?
15: Declaring war on ‘Just Say No’
14: Sex education the Protestant way; then, not now
13: Companionship marriage
12: Have we evolved beyond religion or is Christianity itself that mutation?
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