Slacktivism, a term coined in the mid-1990s, refers to the increasingly popular phenomenon of casual activism.
Michael Craven
A Father's Struggle with Sending a Son to War
This past week, I sent my 20-year-old son to war. As a father, how do I reconcile teaching my son to serve others when doing so is dangerous?
Obamacare and the Catholic Church: It Isn't about Birth Control!
This government’s recent volley across the bow of religious freedom is nothing less than a direct assault on individual freedom of conscience.
Reevangelizing the Church: What is the Gospel?
Now that we are standing at the crossroads of the church's departure from the truth, we can look to the ancient paths: the Scriptures.
Opiate of the Masses?
Opponents of religion think that religious faith persists by means of a stubborn, unenlightened, and uneducated lower class. But what do recent studies show?
$pending This Christmas or Spending It Well
The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford.
Thanksgiving: A National Tradition
As we, once again, approach this national day of thanksgiving, I thought it necessary to reflect upon our nation’s long history of acknowledging and giving thanks to Almighty God.
Thinking Christianly About Economics
Your immediate response may be, “What does Christianity have to do with economics?” In response, I would say: Everything, if you think of economics as the system and means of production and exchange whereby people meet their own and each other’s essential needs.
The Church in Post-Christendom (Part 3): Recovering the Mission of the Church
If the ecclesiocentric view of the church’s mission tends to focus on the building and maintenance of the institutional church (a place of like-minded believers), then a proper theocentric view will focus the organic church (a people who believe and obey) on the mission of God or missio Dei.
The Church in Post-Christendom (Part 2): Understanding the 'Good News'
What exactly is the church’s mission? In order to answer this question, we must first accurately define the gospel.
