by Guy Sayles | Mar 27, 2012 | Opinion
Would you please give it a rest? Try to settle down. Loosen up. Lighten up a little. Ease off. Back off. Whoa, wait a minute, time out. Give me a break. Chill out. If you’re hearing these kinds of things more often lately, there’s a pretty good chance...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 20, 2012 | Opinion
When I was in elementary school, our report cards contained a section on “class citizenship.” We didn’t just get grades on spelling and arithmetic; our teachers also evaluated our character. There was a list of personal qualities; and, next to each...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 16, 2012 | Opinion
Last week, I had the privilege, along with about 60 other Baptist leaders, of spending several hours at a White House briefing and conversation about important domestic policy issues. The briefing took place in a fourth-floor conference room in the venerable and...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 12, 2012 | Opinion
We need community, but community isn’t easy. And it isn’t easy mostly because there are people in community, and people have a way of being predictably and messily human. Some of the people in community with us have strange ideas and unreasonable...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 29, 2012 | Opinion
We’ve all heard, “Denial is not just a river in Egypt.” As worn-out as that cliché surely is, it still serves to remind us of one of the most common dances we use to two-step around the truth about ourselves and the world – the denial dance. You can...
