by John D. Pierce | Oct 28, 2010 | Opinion
They didn’t ask for it. But they are getting it from me every morning now. As my daughters prepare for another school day, they find a scribbled sheet in my handwriting on the kitchen island where the morning’s final organizational efforts occur around 7:30 am. (I’m...
by Larry Greenfield | Oct 28, 2010 | Opinion
Height-challenged Zacchaeus gets high marks from Jesus, not just for climbing that sycamore tree, and not just for taking up the itinerant rabbi’s wish to dine and stay at his house, but most of all for agreeing to give half of his possessions to the poor and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 28, 2010 | Opinion
I’ve been trying to track down the original source of a quote relative to women pastors that goes something like this: “If you don’t want God to call them, don’t baptize them.” Or a variant form, “If you don’t want God to call...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 27, 2010 | Opinion
I’ve been trying to track down the original source of a quote relative to women pastors that goes something like this: “If you don’t want God to call them, don’t baptize them.” Or a variant form, “If you don’t want God to call...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 27, 2010 | Opinion
A story from Religion News Service reports that if someone could gather up all the Bibles either being used or gathering dust in U.S. homes, the stack would be 29 million feet tall – a tower that would rise more than 5,400 miles. For comparative purposes, the...
by Christa Brown | Oct 27, 2010 | Opinion
As an 18-year-old college freshman, Tyler Clementi threw himself off a bridge after what has been widely described as an incident of anti-gay bullying. Other students had surreptitiously filmed Tyler while he was having an encounter with another male in his dorm room,...
