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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  • Spring Terror: From Muslim Brotherhood to Obama?

    Say "spring" nowadays around Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and people hope you're talking about cushy metal coils beneath your mattress, waters dancing through a meadow, or zest in your step. Spring, for those who suffered devastation from last year's Alabama tornados, is the season of terror.

  • Supreme Court's Religious Hiring Decision: Is It Really That Suprising?

    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has wafted the hint of a summery breeze across the increasingly chilly religious liberty landscape.

  • Obama's Defense Cuts and the Betrayal of Sanctuary

    Last week President Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, scissored the nation’s defense budget by $500 billion. The latest tatters of the defense budget join the pile already accumulating from cuts made earlier. By the time it’s all done, almost $1 trillion will be eliminated from the Pentagon budget.

  • The Euro Crisis and the Apocalypse

    “A crisis of apocalyptic proportions” is the way Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, recently described the economic morass into which the Eurozone is sinking.

  • Foreign Policy in Wonderland

    Depending on the point of view, there is much chortling, derision, lamentation, praise, affirmation, bewilderment, and indignation over the foreign policy gaffes, puzzlements, and elucidations of the pontificating tribe of candidates now in pursuit of the presidency, as well as the Chief Executive they seek to defeat. It’s enough to make us think we have tumbled with Alice into the crazy, contradictory and confusing realm Lewis Carroll called “Wonderland.”

  • The Salting of Herman Cain

    No leader is worth his or her salt who has not been salted. Anyone who aspires to leadership must be prepared for the sodium sting. Candidates must not be stunned at accusations, stutter in an attempt at hasty dismissal, or succumb to brain-freeze.

  • Occupy Wall Street, Idealism, and Original Sin

    The Occupy Wall Street movement shows cultures must learn this in every generation. So must mayors and other elected officials whose cities and lands become beachheads of the occupation while the leaders try to find their position and voice.