by Jon Kuhrt | Feb 7, 2019 | Opinion
“Hector” is a gritty and moving road-movie about a homeless man traveling from Scotland to London for Christmas. The 2015 movie is tough to watch in parts, but it is also heart-warming and brilliantly acted. It avoids sentimentalizing the characters or the subject...
by David Swartz | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
On Feb. 1, 1973, U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield (R) of Oregon delivered a stinging address at the National Prayer Breakfast. With President Richard Nixon on his right, Billy Graham on his left, and Henry Kissinger and 3,000 other dignitaries in front of him in the...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
Everything is of one piece. Whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. The renowned theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, gives an example of this. Beauty, he submits, is not some little “extra” that we can value or denigrate according to personal taste and...
by Colin Harris | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion
The co-teacher of our weekly Sunday School class grew up Jewish. As such, he is our resident resource person for questions about the religious conceptual framework within which both the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures came to be. He observed in a recent discussion...
by Chris Miller | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion
The year was 2005. I was just finishing up my undergraduate degree at Southwest Baptist University. But that day, I had actually skipped class to attend the Missouri Baptist Convention. I found myself in the second row at Second Baptist Church in Springfield. It was...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 4, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce ATLANTA, Ga. — Paul Baxley said his calling to serve as the fourth executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) “came most unexpectedly.” The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Athens, Ga., told media at a Feb. 1 press...
