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3 days ago | ministrywatch.com | Warren Smith |NATASHA SMITH

In 1985, Neil Postman published Amusing Ourselves to Death. That means this year is the 40th birthday of this landmark book. And in that 40 years, Postman’s troubling prophesies have mostly come true. Screens have reshaped our minds, our relationships, and our culture. Ivan Mesa and Brett McCracken say that “social media and smartphones have brought an appetite for distraction, an epidemic of loneliness, and increased rates of mental health challenges.

1 week ago | ministrywatch.com | Warren Smith

OPINION–Twice each year, usually in April and October, MinistryWatch conducts a survey of its readers. We’ve been doing this survey for almost four years, and we have used it to understand you, our readers, and to make changes to the way we serve you. We began sharing the results of this survey with you last October. (You can read that article here.) Today, we do so again. So, with that preamble, let’s look at some of the results. I’ll also provide a bit of commentary along the way.

1 week ago | ministrywatch.com | Kim Roberts |Bob Smietana

The following stories had the most page views at the MinistryWatch website during the month of May. We present them here in a “countdown” format, from 10 to 1. The first few sentences of each story are reproduced below. To read the entire story, click on the link. To read the Top 25 stories of 2024, click here. Lawsuit Against Grand Canyon Education Moves ForwardBy Kim Roberts.

1 week ago | ministrywatch.com | Warren Smith |NATASHA SMITH

On today’s program, Gateway Church has named a new senior pastor. The appointment comes a year after child sexual abuse accusations surfaced against founding pastor Robert Morris. We’ll have details. And, the Department of Justice is suing a city in Idaho for discriminating against Christ the Redeemer Church—a church plant of Doug Wilson’s Christ Church. The church has been seeking a permit to meet in an old bank building—a request the city has denied. We’ll take a look.

1 week ago | ministrywatch.com | Laura Erlanson

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case, Preston Garner et. al. v. Southern Baptist Convention et. al., regards an inquiry made by the SBC Credentials Committee in the course of following up on a confidential report made to the SBC’s abuse hotline.