by Trey Lyon | Dec 9, 2010 | Opinion
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t...
by Joe Phelps | Dec 9, 2010 | Opinion
It is a gift to be reminded that our routine and faithful actions can be a source of God’s healing love breaking forth. After 14 Advents, Sunday’s placing of crosses on our lawn in memory of this year’s violence victims has become as much a part of...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
By John Pierce Thirty years ago, a group of Berry College students and I spent a week in Harlem working with children and assisting in a ministry center down on the Lower East Side. Each night, after our various adventures in NYC, we would gather at the corner of West...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
On a frigidly cold morning, after a brisk walk that was not of my own choosing, I ask: why do we keep dogs? Any number of people could give many answers, especially those who consider themselves “dog people.” I am not one of them. The simple answer for how...
by Robert Parham | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Three Oklahomans – two Baptists and a Muslim – left behind that state’s infectious fear of Islam to combat the infectious disease of malaria in...
by Bill Wilson | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
It’s hunting season, and the woods and fields are filled with dedicated hunters intent on bagging a trophy or simply putting food on the table. Not a good time to be a deer. It’s approaching the end of the year and most churches continue to feel the...
