The "And from Bill..." Archive

The Pew Research group recently published its latest survey of the American religious landscape; the results were not encouraging. Highlight findings: The percentage of Americans who call...

For a long time the decline of the modern Church has been evident to even casual observers. Here’s a column I wrote more than twenty years ago in which I acknowledged the problem and its...

This entry might be one of the most courageous newsletter columns I’ve ever written. I had been here less than two years. I was still in my twenties. Yet there I was writing about obsession...

Sometimes current events seem to cry out for the attention of one of my newsletter columns. Such was the case eighteen years ago when in close proximity our nation dealt with the issues of...

After I retire, the one ministry I will almost certainly claim as my signature ministry is creating meaningful, memorable, and personal celebrations of life in what we call funerals.

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