by David Kerrigan | Mar 7, 2011 | Opinion
My clumsy discernment of times when God wants me to pay attention is often characterized by flashes of insight that then fuel my preaching, teaching or conversation for weeks, months or even longer. One conviction has been with me for some years now, namely that our...
by Larry Greenfield | Mar 7, 2011 | Opinion
Politicians, who call for cuts in virtually every line of national and state budgets, are politically and economically understandable. When you’ve got the opportunity to build on the public’s fear as a weapon to achieve your economic and political...
by Robert Parham | Mar 7, 2011 | Opinion
Driving at night out of a predominantly low-income Hispanic neighborhood in Siler City, N.C., we were stopped at a police checkpoint. I asked one of the five Chatham County sheriffs what the problem was. He asked for my driver’s license and shined his...
by James L. Evans | Mar 4, 2011 | Opinion
It’s amazing what you can find in the Bible when you actually read it. In the third chapter of Joel, we find these words: “Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.” But then, about a century later, we read these words from...
by Miles Catlett | Mar 4, 2011 | Opinion
The church that plays together stays together. Games accomplish several important tasks that people in communities need in order to stay connected and to grow, according to new research on cooperative play. Author Jane McGonigal’s (see video) recent book,...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 3, 2011 | Opinion
“Sitting opposite of the [Temple’s] treasury, Jesus watched how the crowd cast copper coins into the treasury. Many rich people cast in much, but one poor widow came and cast two lepta, which is a quardrans. Having called his disciples close to him, Jesus...
