by Wendell Griffen | Dec 24, 2010 | Opinion
This is a festive season for churches, retailers, public officials, individuals and families. Is the hustle and bustle to decorate, invite, visit and joyfully celebrate enough? Or are we hustling, bustling, decorating, inviting, visiting and celebrating without also...
by Alex Awad | Dec 24, 2010 | Opinion
Embedded in the Christmas story is God’s desire for peace on our planet. Luke announced that “peace on earth” was the theme that the angels heralded over the skies of Bethlehem on the night that the Savior was born. We can conclude from their...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 23, 2010 | Opinion
By John Pierce Christmas is comforting in many ways: family, friends and familiar traditions. There is even a feeling of warmth in the main attraction: an innocent baby born long ago. Yet it is that child who grew to say some of the most challenging words one could...
by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 23, 2010 | Opinion
Children signal the true state of reality. Healthy, happy children reveal civil arrangements that provide services to those who have no choice in the matter; starving, abandoned children give evidence that the ecology of economics, politics and environment is...
by Colin Harris | Dec 23, 2010 | Opinion
Looking at the world through the lens of Bethlehem’s manger can make every birth a Christmas, and every life an incarnation. Several years ago, a student responded to a class discussion of the birth accounts in Matthew and Luke, the relatively late and rather...
by Christopher J. Montgomery | Dec 23, 2010 | Opinion
The notion of holiness as perfection is not a helpful understanding of holiness. In our journey in following Jesus, simply “not behaving badly” is a misunderstanding of the mission of God. We often point to a verse in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for a...
