Prepare to Meet Your God: Repentance in the Time of Coronavirus
By Rhett Burns We live, like the old Chinese curse goes, in interesting times. A global pandemic and all its […]
Put Your Mercy on Display: A Prayer in a time of Pandemic
By Rhett Burns Our Father in Heaven, “[You are] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore,
The Glory of Inefficiency
By Rhett Burns My eight-year-old son asked for a Truist Park cake for his recent birthday, and my wife, always
Opting Out: Farage, Freedom, and Cheerful Defiance
By Rhett Burns At 11:00 p.m. local time January 31, Great Britain left the European Union. A few days prior,
Man as Maker: Why Entrepreneurship Excites
Over at the How to Build a Tent podcast, Matt Williams is encouraging listeners to start businesses in 2020, and
Do Not Leave Your Friends in Battle: Chick-Fil-A and the Culture Wars
By Rhett Burns Chick-Fil-A announced this week it is restructuring the company’s charitable giving. Instead of donating to more than
True Believers, Marketers, and Evangelists
When I was a child, our church would gather late every summer with dozens of area churches for a large
Can the Church Replace the Natural Family?
A few weeks ago, I wrote the following in this space: We should also stop conflating the church and the
The Future is Familial
By Rhett Burns The Atlantic recently published an essay chronicling the childless American city, noting that New York City has
Singing is Slaying
By Rhett Burns Several weeks ago, I wrote here that feasting is fighting. But bread and wine and forks are
Motherhood in the Mission of God
By Rhett Burns At the most recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (my denomination), president J.D. Greear hosted
Feasting is Fighting
In the war for the world, that ancient, yet active campaign to extend the rule of King Jesus to the