by Mitch Randall | Jan 3, 2019 | Opinion
As 2019 gets underway, a large part of the U.S. government remains shut down. According to President Donald Trump and congressional lawmakers, the shutdown centers on one issue: funding to build a physical wall along the southern border of the United States. For much...
by Richard Wilson | Jan 3, 2019 | Opinion
The month of Advent anticipations and the 12 days of Christmas celebrations have come and gone. The Advent wreath is in storage and the Christmas tree has been recycled. Now comes the important and hard work of making our celebrations meaningful. If what we have been...
by Steven R. Harmon | Jan 3, 2019 | Opinion
What’s an ecumenical dialogue like? For those who have some experience in higher education, it’s pretty much like a departmental faculty meeting that lasts most of the day, five days in a row – except that it’s infinitely more interesting (to me, at least) and of...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 2, 2019 | Opinion
A politics of purity versus a politics of compassion. That was the fundamental disagreement between the Pharisees and Jesus, according to biblical scholar Marcus Borg (1942-2015) in his book, “Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus.” “Conflict...
by Bill Rudd | Jan 2, 2019 | Opinion
A little like the Three Bears’ porridge, some journeys are too fast, and others too slow. Only a few are just right. My biblical journey regarding gender roles in the church has been slow – way too slow. In retrospect, it included more than a half-century of traveling...
by Steven R. Harmon | Jan 2, 2019 | Opinion
Pope Francis characterized the act of preaching as a rejoining of a conversation that has already been going on for a long time in his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“On the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World”). “The homily takes up once more...
