by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 30, 2002 | Opinion
Other writers will look back at the year just coming to a close and offer judgment about the top religion stories of the year. Such a list will no doubt include things like the 9-11 memorial services, clergy sex scandals, and religion and violence. Rather than...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 12, 2002 | Opinion
Transforming our festivals of faith into seasons of intercession may help counter the hate and despair that fuels the call to kill. They published a Ramadan prayer guide calling on Christians to pray for the conversion of Muslims. This is not necessarily a bad idea....
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 4, 2002 | Opinion
A great deal of money is trading hands even as the box moves from one person to another, from one institution to another. Financial gain is influencing treatment of the box and undermining the credibility of its handlers. I saw it in Toronto, in a special exhibit at...
by Dwight A. Moody | Nov 25, 2002 | Opinion
In the world of organized religion, centralized authority is rolling in at full tide, while at the scattered edges of the globe the freedoms of the faithful ebb away. Consider these episodes: American bishops of the Roman Catholic Church recently gathered in the...
by Dwight A. Moody | Nov 13, 2002 | Opinion
What we are not seeing are the cold, dead bodies of thousands of people shot dead every day in our own dear America, by virtue of which we have become the most violent nation on the face of the earth. What is not dead is the hope that someday, somewhere in America...