by Stephen Holmes | Apr 1, 2015 | Opinion
I like good oratory and I teach public speaking regularly. I locate great examples from various professions and watch the best of them over and over, making notes on why they work. I review videos almost frame by frame with classes and seminars, pointing out this hand...
by Stephen Holmes | Mar 5, 2015 | Opinion
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released in 2009 by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds as medical advice suggested that he was dying of cancer. He had previously been convicted in 2001 of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103. The...
by Stephen Holmes | Feb 5, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists did away with various traditional distinctions of Christian life in their beginnings. Although practicing ordination, we denied it established any set-apart hierarchy within the life of the church. We also rejected the traditional Roman Catholic practice of...
by Stephen Holmes | Dec 11, 2012 | Opinion
My friend, Ruth Valerio, has a typically thoughtful and well-written blog post up about the need for adaptive theologies in the face of our changing climate, to which she drew my attention when we were talking about something else. (If you don’t follow...
by Stephen Holmes | Dec 3, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the third column in a three-part series. Read part one here and part two here. Easter 1997, and I was at an academic conference on the theme “The Communication of God.” A Jewish philosopher was speaking to us about the promise...
