Depending on who you talk to in Caracas, President Hugo Chávez is either a socialist messiah or a demonic tyrant. He quotes the Bible yet he incites violence. He talks of liberating the poor and enjoys their support, yet he is best friends with the world’s dictators—including Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
World Missions from the Hispanic/Latino churches (1987 – 2007)
By Grant McClung
One of the advantages of thirty years in global missions involvement is the vantage point of looking back for perspective.
Depending on how you look at it, Sen. Charles Grassley is either a crusader for righteousness or a devil with horns.
By J. Lee Grady
Kevin, a 31-year-old pastor from Minnesota, asked me an honest question this week. He’s been reading about all the scandals that have rocked the charismatic world, beginning with Ted Haggard’s embarrassing moral failure late last year and continuing with the recent divorces among prominent church leaders and the allegations of financial mismanagement made against leaders at Oral Roberts University.
ChristiaNet.com, the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, recently asked, “Should Christians participate in Halloween?” President of ChristiaNet, Bill Cooper, stated, “It is the responsibility of the parents to explain the origins of traditions to their children.”
By J. Lee Grady
When I started my job at Charisma in 1992, one of my first assignments was to sort through dozens of files of disturbing allegations made against one of the largest charismatic churches in the country.
