by Monty Knight | Mar 14, 2011 | Opinion
The Supreme Court recently upheld, on First Amendment grounds, a federal appeals court’s decision to overturn a verdict awarding millions to the father of the late Matthew Snyder. The decision represents an interesting – some would say tragic – irony in the...
by Ayman Ibrahim | Mar 14, 2011 | Opinion
The Coptic Church in the village of Atfih, a Cairo neighborhood, was recently burned down. Many Christian homes and small shops were also set ablaze by Muslims in that village. The Atfih city council succeeded in achieving reconciliation between the Copts and Muslims,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 14, 2011 | Opinion
The Lenten season always feels like a paradox to me. It is traditionally a time of reflection, of penitence, of mourning for the brokeness of self and the brokenness of the world. Lent happens, however, at a happy time of year, just as lively spring emerges from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
So, having decided Ash Wednesday morning that I would intentionally look for opportunities to be kind or helpful through the Lenten season, I found various ways to do so, in small ways, through the day. Toward evening, I was confronted with a somewhat different...
by Colin Harris | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
Have you ever read or heard about something from the past and thought, “Hey, wait a minute. That’s what’s going on now!”? Sitting in recently on a seminar that has been studying the American South during the 1950s and ’60s created that...
by James L. Evans | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
I have been an advocate for the poor, both the relatively poor of our nation and the desperately poor in the rest of the world, for my entire ministry. There are several reasons why this is so. First of all, I grew up near poverty. My immediate family was not poor...
