By James E. Copple The Church is a relationship ...
Guns, Tobacco and Moral Authority
By James E Copple Guns have become a public hea ...
Incarceration: A Crisis in Search of a Ministry
By James E. Copple There are at least 2.3 milli ...
A Man Named Oscar
by James E. Copple In February of 1966, my f ...
Women Matter – So What Can We Do?
We will never change cultural norms around bias or ...
The Global Church: Myth or Reality?
We preach the body of Christ and talk about the global church and the global community as if we are all connected and part of a universal, tightly knitted community with a single purpose and goal…Unfortunately, as with many things in the Church – it is a myth of convenience.
Finding Christ
I often go to slums and work in urban environments that are horrific in poverty, disease and crime. But this morning was different. I walked the narrow walkways between corrugated huts interviewing the youth leaders. The smells were so bad that three times I had to fight the gag reflex…