by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 16, 2010 | Opinion
Yes, elections do have consequences – and for Hispanics, those consequences are negative. The House going Republican is devastating for Latino and Latina constituents. The recent announcement of committee chairs for the 112th Congress clearly indicates that the new...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 15, 2010 | Opinion
Does your church make a big deal of Christmas? Celebrate Advent? Fill shoe boxes? Pull out all the stops in promoting an offering for missions? When I was a boy, Christmas was a time for the choir to learn and perform a new cantata, often by John W. Peterson (whose...
by Berry Craig | Dec 15, 2010 | Opinion
“Sometimes, you’ve got to laugh to keep from crying,” my Presbyterian grandmother, God rest her soul, used to say. So it is with a $150 million Noah’s Ark theme park proposed for my native Kentucky. The project, called “Ark...
by Barrett Owen | Dec 15, 2010 | Opinion
Human trafficking is “the illegal and involuntary smuggling of a person across borders, often for the purposes of forced labor,” according to Julie Clawson in “Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices.” Whether we choose to...
by David Kerrigan | Dec 15, 2010 | Opinion
We recently spent a day with Stuart Murray-Williams looking at Anabaptist history, theology and spirituality and its possible implications for BMS World Mission. It was a fascinating day, well presented, easy to engage with and highly relevant. In the middle of the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 14, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the third of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Read the first here and the second here. Tanzania is a nation of contrasts, having the highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro – on one side of the...
