Randy Bright

June 13, 2013

Last year, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, church lost its legal battle to keep its property from being taken by Broward County, which wanted to build a substance-abuse facility and sexual assault center on its property. The church, Christian Romany Church [...]

June 6, 2013

Ron Sims, the Former HUD Deputy Secretary, was recently shown in a video clip on Hannity saying, “Today, we’ve taken an important step toward building what we call geography of opportunity.” This was in reference of a long, ongoing battle [...]

May 30, 2013

There are a lot of churches that are seeking to find a way back into the core of the city and to the suburbs, rightfully looking at those areas as a mission field that the church has abandoned over the [...]

May 23, 2013

This morning, our youth pastor gave the sermon at my church and he said something that I found to be very interesting and profound.  He said (I am paraphrasing) that year after year, he has seen the youth from our [...]

May 16, 2013

One of the most recognizable mosques in the world is the Hagia Sophia (also spelled Aya Sofia) in Istanbul, Turkey.  It is also known as the Church of Holy Wisdom. It was built as a church by Justinian the Great [...]

May 9, 2013

There are a lot of mixed signals about the direction of the economy, including the first-ever breaking of the 15,000 mark on the Dow. Pundits, even one conservative economist that I occasionally listen to,  are raving  about how well the [...]

May 2, 2013

This weekend was a rarity of late. Considering my packed schedule, my wife and I actually managed two outings in the same weekend.  Saturday evening we got in my small plane and did some sightseeing around the Tulsa area, and [...]

April 25, 2013

Think you need eminent domain to take something?  Not in Chicago. In the middle of the night on March 30, 2003, without prior warning, Chicago Mayor  Daley sent bulldozers through fences to destroy the runway of Meigs Field, a small [...]

April 18, 2013

There is one thing that I can think of that churches are really lousy at doing and that’s bragging.  Remember that old saying, “it ain’t braggin’ if it’s the truth?” In last week’s article, I wrote about the growing trend [...]

April 11, 2013

There is one thing that I can think of that churches are really lousy at doing and that’s bragging.  Remember that old saying, “it ain’t braggin’ if it’s the truth?” In last week’s article, I wrote about the growing trend [...]