By Jacqueline J. Holness When I was a student at the University of Georgia, I often saw a white street preacher perched on a wooden platform in the student center courtyard, wildly proclaiming the gospel. I had several reasons for not stopping to listen to what he had to say. My two main reasons […]
Church: what size is the right size?
By Jacqueline J. Holness Americans seem to have a fascination with size—from our widening waistlines, to our penchant for Hummers on narrow city roads, to the McMansions that decorate suburbia from sea to shining sea. And the church is not immune to this cultural influence. Which is better—the small church, or the big church? […]
The church and the prosperity gospel
Jacqueline J. Holness Home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a host of megachurches, Atlanta is known as America’s civil rights capital. While I attend a smaller church, I have visited some of Atlanta’s megachurches. Some I have visited are like my home church in regard to their presentation of the gospel. The […]
Dating and marriage—by the book
Jacqueline J. Holness In the span of a year, seven friends revealed to me they were joining the ranks of the divorced. For better or for worse, divorce long ago ceased being a cultural taboo; it is now a cultural norm. As a Christian, I know God hates divorce, and I’ve read statistics showing […]
What would Jesus do?
By Jacqueline J. Holness What would Jesus do? Youth minister Dan Seaborn likely created the most popular Christian pop culture question ever when he posed the question to motivate his youth group in 1989. In four words it crystallizes the essence of what we should aspire to as Christians. And it can be applied […]