by Guy Sayles | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
News of reprehensible things still shocks and unsettles most of us, as it should. I worry, though, that we are careening toward a national normlessness and undergoing a public desensitization, which will result in our merely noting, not decrying and crying over, awful...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 6, 2018 | Opinion
We can’t faithfully follow Jesus alone. We need companions on the journey of discipleship. The way of Jesus is the way to life as God means it to be – a way of love, justice, peace and joy – but it isn’t easy. That’s why nearly every New Testament snapshot of...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 18, 2018 | Opinion
No, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, you may not use Paul’s words in Romans 13:1 to justify the heinous separation of children from their parents. That text was abused by church officials who ordered the brutal Crusades against Muslims, by southern preachers who...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 9, 2018 | Opinion
Character is the primary arena of change. We can’t change the DNA we inherited, the circumstances into which we were born, the families that shaped and misshaped us, or the wounding events we’ve undergone. Some things about our bodies, temperaments and...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 31, 2018 | Opinion
Do you think anybody ever really changes? When my wife, Anita, and I were in seminary, we served a small and loving congregation in southern Indiana. One of our next-door neighbors, a generous man in his late 50s and a faithful church member, was crustily cynical...
