by David Wheeler | Dec 6, 2019 | Opinion
This Sunday, we celebrate the Advent theme of peace. In the famous words from Isaiah, “They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain” (Isaiah 11:9). This is a precious promise to embrace in these days when actual shooting wars have displaced millions, and...
by David Wheeler | Aug 29, 2019 | Opinion
I first was invited to a tenure track position as a theology professor by Central Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, in 1985, only a year out of grad school. I´ve been teaching pretty much continuously ever since. But my first experience with online teaching began less than...
by David Wheeler | Jul 3, 2019 | Opinion
The modern Baptist movement arose in England (and among English exiles in the Netherlands). Early Baptists, such as John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, proclaimed a simple evangelical faith rooted in Scripture alone and – in dramatic opposition to both the Protestants and...
by David Wheeler | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
When I was a boy in Kentucky, a drive on a summer evening would load up the windshield and the grille of our car with the sticky remains of deceased insects. Every porchlight was surrounded from dusk to dawn with a living halo of moths and June bugs. Children staying...
by David Wheeler | Jan 22, 2019 | Opinion
One of the most significant causes of conflict – whether between individuals or among nations – is the conviction that reality revolves around ourselves: our perceptions, our needs and our desires. Ancient biblical narratives both reflect and oppose this orientation....
