Wallace B. Henley

Wallace B. Henley

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Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.

His latest book, Who Will Rule the Coming ‘Gods’?, offers groundbreaking spiritual insight into emerging AI technologies.

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  • The dangerous lure of power in times like these

    The dangerous lure of power in times like these

    The present crisis in the United States is worse than most realize.

  • Re-imagining America: The quest for authentic hope (pt. 3)

    Re-imagining America: The quest for authentic hope (pt. 3)

    This dark outlook spurs the question: Is there any hope for the future? The answer: there is, but we must look to authentic objective hope and not some dreamy subjective figment of our own imagining.

  • Re-imaging America: Prophecy of people group against people group (pt 2)

    Re-imaging America: Prophecy of people group against people group (pt 2)

    Further, extremists on both sides of the socio-cultural divide are ready with ideological torch in hand to ignite the old prejudices and conflicts that once set the nation itself ablaze. One of the firebrands presently generating heat is critical race theory.

  • Re-imagining America: So, this is what it looks like? (pt 1)

    Re-imagining America: So, this is what it looks like? (pt 1)

    I was coming from a meeting where I had watched an in-your-face media presentation about the way our civilization is collapsing. And I wondered: When will be the climactic moment of this change—or “re-imagining” as some call it now? More important: What will the new nation look like?

  • The urgent need for 'sin'

    The urgent need for 'sin'

    The cases of Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, among others, reveal the contradiction of a worldview and system that does not believe in original sin yet wants to punish those it deems sinners.

  • Will America still be America? The dangerous altering of America's DNA

    Will America still be America? The dangerous altering of America's DNA

    Therefore, this Fourth of July we must reflect on the sobering truth of what will happen as America’s “DNA” is altered.

  • An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention

    An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention

    Dear Southern Baptists: Though I am an elderly man, I am your kid. And though I am no longer a pastor in a Southern Baptist church, I am employing skills and applying knowledge you nurtured in me beginning in 1950 when I first joined a Southern Baptist church at age nine.

  • A new day for the Church: Profile of a truly dynamic church (pt 3)

    A new day for the Church: Profile of a truly dynamic church (pt 3)

    One of the greatest tragedies that can afflict the post-pandemic church is that of getting tangled in a jungle of institutional analysis and missing an opportune moment—a kairos.

  • A new day for the Church: Modeling incarnational ministry (pt 2)

    A new day for the Church: Modeling incarnational ministry (pt 2)

    “There are so many churches in America,” said Chuck as he gazed at me with querulous eyes. Then the question: “Why If there are so many churches is the nation in such trouble... Why is there so little transformation?”

  • A D-Day epiphany

    A D-Day epiphany

    As I walked among the graves, my mind suddenly shifted to another French beach some 250 miles away: Dunkirk. There, in 1940, more than 300,000 British troops, with their allies and weaponry, were trapped before a surging German army. Winston Churchill was desperate to get his fighters off the beach so that the soldiers could be re-equipped and sent back to fight again.

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