Rosa Parks Was Ready

Most people know of Rosa Parks as the black woman who refused to go to the back of the bus, and thus ignited the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

Religious Pace Setters

For the first time in American history, whatever is happening in religion is being driven by the media instead of ecclesiastical institutions.

A Test of Leadership

This is one of the tests of leadership: that you recognize what affects people, not what should affect people.

Ministers Are a Flame of Fire

God makes his ministers a flame of fire.

Am I ignitable?

God, deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things."

Saturate me with the oil of ...

Heroes Are Different from Superstars

Our age finds it difficult to come to grips with figures like Winston Churchill. The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be ...

Where Are the Replacements?

There were great preachers in Washington thirty or forty years ago, but, with a few notable exceptions, their replacements have not arrived as yet. The ...

A Safe View of War

I was so touched when Norman Schwarzkopf, general of the Desert Storm allied forces, was interviewed by Ted Koppel. The general won my respect in a profound ...

Vision Should Belong to Everyone

If vision is going to be owned by the people, it has to be more than something we talk them into.

The Roles of Leaders and Visions

Leaders do not have to be the greatest visionaries themselves. The vision may come from anyone. The leaders do have to state the vision, however. Leaders ...

Political "Reform"

There is nothing quite like a presidential election year to reveal how empty and dissatisfying our political process has become. ... Television has taken ...