Author: Michael Metzger

At its peak, General Electric was the most valuable company in the U.S., worth nearly $600 billion in August 2000. Today it’s worth a tenth of that. What went wrong?

Volunteer organizations such as Thread do great work. They also remind us of why we have to scale systems up and down.

Brain plasticity explains much of how we change our minds. Yet few over the age of 25 ever change their mind in significant ways. There are two ways to fix this.

Our political landscape is polarized because each party has a wrong emphasis. The correct one is found at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Live-streaming church is increasingly popular. But it doesn’t offer the one thing you can’t experience online. And that’s a big loss.

The year 2019 will likely mark an important milestone for evangelicals. Lane Greene of The Economist suspects most evangelicals will miss it.

Christmas reminds us we’re supposed to be publishing glad tidings of great joy. A Google survey of literature suggests we’re not doing our job.

When people of good conscience identify with an injustice—slavery, poverty, racism, starvation—their language changes. They begin using unequivocal verbs.

The economic recession of 2008 was bad enough. But we’re in a hidden recession dating from the mid-1990s. It’s also a hidden opportunity for the faith community.

My wife Kathy and I took the plunge four years ago. We moved into town. But I’m coming to see I had it backward. God plunged us into a world I knew little about.