Bullies, Nonviolence, and Jesus

By Jeff Goins, Editor When I was in first grade, I had a bully named Teddy. Yes, that’s right, Teddy. It doesn’t exactly conjure fear and intimidation, does it? (More like cute and cuddly…) And quite frankly, he looked like a “Teddy.” But Teddy had a friend. A bodyguard, if you will. I can’t remember [...]

Interview with Sanctus Real: Pieces of a Real Heart

By Jeff Goins, Editor Wrecked recently had the opportunity to interview Matt Hammitt, frontman for Sanctus Real, about the band’s new release Pieces of a Real Heart. Here’s how it went down: WRECKED: What led you to write “Lead Me”? What’s the back story on that? Mark Hamitt: I’ve been married for almost nine years to [...]

Book Review: Matthew Paul Turner’s Hear No Evil

By Carole Turner Hear No Evil‘s subtitle is “My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost”. A lot of it is set in the Christian music world of the 80′s and 90′s. Matthew Paul Turner, the author, was raised Fundamentalist Baptist; he didn’t go to a movie until he was 19 years old, and [...]

Never Growing Up: Spiritual Lessons Learned from Peter Pan

By Tim Chermak “All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed [...]

Hook Up or Get Out: God’s Prescription for Holiness

By Renee Johnson “He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful” (John 15:2). “Hook up or get out.” That’s what my brother always says to me. What he really meant is… don’t mess around. Isn’t [...]

Faith, Hope, and Love in the 21st Century: A Manifesto?

By Jeff Goins, Editor Let’s face it: Christianity in the Western world is quickly changing. If you’ve had a conversation with an average person on the street about what she believes about God or religion, it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that she probably doesn’t have regard for those topics. More and more people don’t [...]

The Myth of Education (How to Really Change the World)

By Tim Chermak The end justifies the means. Or does it? As people of faith, whether we identify ourselves with Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, even Atheism, this is a question we must continually wrestle with. It’s easy to say the end justifies the means; it’s easy to say the means justifies the end. It’s hard [...]

Book Review: Secular Sabotage

By Jesse Medina Who is to blame? That is the primary question that President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, is seeking to answer in his new book Secular Sabotage.  And the answer?  Secular liberals.  Even more, it is a calculated war they are waging in their effort to destroy religion and culture in America. [...]

Book Review: The Love Revolution by Joyce Meyer

By George Elerick The first time I saw the ministry of Joyce Meyer in action, I was in a small orphanage slum in the middle of Southern India. The kids were gearing up for Christmas and singing carols to usher in the winter solstice.  I was with a team of people and we were there to sing with [...]

The T-Word: Tolerance and the Christian Faith

By Ryan Francis Twenty-first century America is a society rich in diversity.  However, that diversity proposes many challenges, not least of which is religious tolerance. The need for a plan of action in this area of society is clear when we see the FBI reporting religious bias as the second highest hate crime motivation. Notable [...]