The company’s new headquarters is at 4955 Technology Way, featuring a white and cobalt blue contemporary look. Geo Chairman and CEO George Zoley “wanted to make sure he had an iconic building,” said Juan Calcedo, principal in charge of design at RLC Architects, which designed the headquarters. “He wanted to make sure the building stood out from the crowd.” ... Read More
Why Niceness Weakens Our Witness
I can’t follow Christ and also succeed at being nice. God did not call you to be nice. This statement has been rattling around in my head for well over a year now, and I haven’t been able to shake it. It has reemerged at crucial moments, not as an excuse to be snarky, angry, or rude, but because I have noticed something going on in my heart, and in the church, for a while now: A competing allegiance. A warm and inviting idolatry that has managed to wedge itself between us and true... Read More
Jesus, Deliver Us from This Racist Evil Age
We believe in a Savior who redeems, a Spirit who reconciles, and a gospel that is the antithesis of white supremacy. On August 3, 2019, a shooter entered a Wal-Mart shopping center in El Paso, Texas, and murdered 22 image-bearers and injured dozens of others. According to news reports, the gunman was a white supremacist, and he is rightly being identified as a domestic terrorist. This massacre marks the latest overt example of white supremacist terror in the US. The shooter allegedly wrote... Read More
Sometimes, God Wants You to Go with Your Gut
Our intuitions aren’t infallible. That doesn’t mean we should ignore them. Watson Thornton was already serving as a missionary in Japan when he decided to join the Japan Evangelistic Band, an evangelistic mission founded in England in 1903. He decided to travel to the town where the organization’s headquarters were located and to introduce himself to its leader. But just as he was about to get on the train, he felt a tug in his spirit that he took to be the leading of the Lord... Read More
Parkland students demand presidential candidates ‘have a plan’
“We are in the middle of a gun violence epidemic and our country is dying,” Hogg said in a prepared statement. “Our hearts go out to every family and community member facing the immeasurable loss of a loved one. In their honor, we are more focused and determined than ever. We will keep turning our outrage into action.” ... Read More
Homeless Christians, Fractured Culture: Thoughts on Prayers, Laments, and Action
The tragedies in El Paso and Dayton should propel us towards both prayer and action. Over the weekend, tragedy once again rocked our country to its core as two separate mass shootings occurred within hours of each other in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. More than that, these senseless shootings revealed a fracture that has long existed in our nation. America has walked with a limp for years now without acknowledging the underlying pain. Unfortunately, it appears, Christianity in America... Read More
Hundreds have died in mass shootings since Parkland and Pulse. What’s been done?
The GOP-led state Legislature enacted Florida’s first gun-control legislation in two decades after the Parkland massacre that claimed the lives of 17 students and staff. Those changes included raising the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, making it easier for law enforcement to seize guns from dangerous people, imposing a statewide three-day waiting period for long-gun sales, boosting mental health and school security funding and banning bump stocks, which enable enable semiautomatic... Read More
Despite El Paso and Dayton, Florida AG Ashley Moody maintains opposition to assault weapons amendment
Moody has been criticized by Ban Assault Weapons Now, a group that includes family members of the Parkland shooting and Pulse nightclub shooting survivors, including Ricardo Negron-Almodovar and Brandon Wolf, for her A rating from the National Rifle Association, which they claim is the reason she opposes the amendment. ... Read More
MAP: 17 died in Parkland, and then the U.S. saw 566 more mass shootings
The horrifying attacks brought to 608 the number of people who have died from mass shootings across the country since the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland shooting — equal to more than one per day, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related incidents. ... Read More
Active shooter drill in Wellington mall causes panic on the heels of El Paso and Dayton attacks
“You have a computer paper with some writing on it. You’re going to walk in the mall, someone is going to hold the door for you, you don’t see it,” Ventresca said. “None of the attendants, none of the managers disclosed there was going to be a drill to us getting tickets.” ... Read More