One-on-One with Bob Craft on Tracking Thailand’s Church Planting Revival

“The spreading…of the gospel comes through the voices, hands, and feet of Thai people.” Ed: In the CT article, the author talks about the difference between being led by the Spirit or led by the stats. In your observations, have there been any downsides to this data? Anything you would change? Bob: It is not really a contrast, as someone might think. Jesus encouraged us to "lift up our eyes and look at the fields." Our decisions and strategies should be informed by... Read More

Korean Megachurches Debate If Pastors’ Kids Can Inherit Pulpits

Myungsung, the world’s largest Presbyterian church, awaits denominational court ruling on pastoral succession. “You’ve heard that our church is very big. Very large,” said the pastor emeritus of the world’s largest Presbyterian church at the 2018 commencement of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. “I and my colleagues at our church worked together and practiced exactly what American missionaries taught us,” continued Kim Sam-whan, who in 1980 founded... Read More

State must stop grading public schools | Opinion

It’s this time of the year when Florida Department of Education releases school grades for all the public schools in the state. This labeling is solely based on the performance of students in the state exams. School grades range from an F to an A, depending on how students perform in those standardized state tests. A good school grade is directly tied to several benefits, and one of those is increase in funding. So, in order to achieve that A, schools do everything possible to ensure that... Read More

Lauderdale Spice? Annual Broward restaurant promotion starts Aug. 1, expands to two months

As usual, the list skews toward steakhouses (Morton’s, the Capital Grille, III Forks) and hotel restaurants. Among the notable ones: Boathouse at the Riverside Hotel, Burlock Coast at the Fort Lauderdale Ritz-Carlton, the Terrace Grill at the new Dalmar Hotel, Lona Cocina at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach, Point Royal at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood and Wild Thyme at the Atlantic Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. It also includes a few cozier, upscale restaurants outside Fort Lauderdale,... Read More

The Christian CBD Changes Its Name

Christian Book Distributors drops its initials to avoid confusion with the cannabis product. For more than 20 years, Christian Book Distributors—a direct-mail cataloger and online retailer—has gone by the letters CBD. But the company announced last month it would drop the abbreviation and the word distributors from its name in response to the now-common use of CBD to refer to cannabidiol. The letters will no longer appear beneath its logo, an open book with flipping... Read More

Meeting Jesus as a Black Woman in a White City

I asked God to rescue me from a place I hated. He wanted me to stay put. It’s one of my most vivid memories as a girl: sitting on the edge of my bed, face angled toward the window, eyes peeled for my daddy. My heart would race as a new set of headlights approached—maybe that’s him—before sinking as the car passed into the distance. Still, I’d hold on to hope. From the time my parents divorced—I was four—I looked forward to these planned outings with... Read More

At 4-foot-2, this wrestler is called ‘the Biggest Pimp’ — and he’s part of a wave of small-scale mayhem

His home base is Clearwater, but he has done shows all over the country, from Florida to New York to California and everywhere in between. He makes anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 in a year — not enough to live on, but it helps bring in extra cash to supplement his day job at an aquarium. ... Read More

Even Broward voters cringe at Democrats’ resurrection of decades-old busing issue | Fred Grimm

Every spring, the Broward School District would dutifully reconfigure attendance zones and draw up busing plans supposed to desegregate schools. Every fall, two elements conspired to make the process a maddening, inefficacious bureaucratic exercise. Black kids, to their parents’ growing dismay, were bused out of their own neighborhoods and scattered around the county. Most white kids assigned to black neighborhood schools didn’t show up. ... Read More