by Matt DuVall | Mar 28, 2011 | Opinion
I was coming back into the church office when our secretary spoke up: “I want to show you something.” I followed her to the workroom and saw a cardboard box labeled “Amazon” on the side. I assumed a good book was inside. Then our secretary...
by Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb | Mar 28, 2011 | Opinion
Prathia L. Hall is one of those women I wished I had met somewhere along the way. I’m sure I would have been enthralled and moved to shout “Amen” by the force of her preaching. And I would have been excited to learn from her Bible teaching or...
by Colin Harris | Mar 28, 2011 | Opinion
When something has been said so well, so often, by so many, you wonder about stepping to the microphone of our collective reflection to say again what seems so obvious. But if the recent battle to claim our guiding narrative has taught us anything, it has made clear...
by James L. Evans | Mar 25, 2011 | Opinion
In September 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for president of the United States. Opposition forces had decided to make his Catholic faith an issue. Our country had never had a Catholic president before. The contrived controversy questioned whether Kennedy would...
by Larry Greenfield | Mar 25, 2011 | Opinion
It hasn’t yet become a daily routine, but Congress continues to go to the well to approve stop-gap spending bills so the federal government can continue to operate. But this fiscal year, temporary budget approvals have included terms of three days, two weeks...
by Robert Parham | Mar 25, 2011 | Opinion
President Barack Obama has bypassed the time-honored rules of just war for a second time. The first time was when he announced in early December 2009 that he wanted more war in Afghanistan to end the war there. In Obama’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy...
