by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 24, 2010 | Opinion
One of our most distinctive qualities as humans, I think, is anticipation — the ability and proclivity to think about what’s coming next. I suppose animals can anticipate things to a certain degree: our dog knows that he gets a walk every morning, so he...
by Mark Woods | Sep 24, 2010 | Opinion
We have grown so used to tales of gloom and doom about the future of the church that when someone brings us some good news the impulse is to disbelieve it. Surely, we think, they can’t all be wrong, all those learned scholars who predicted the imminent...
by James L. Evans | Sep 24, 2010 | Opinion
Listen to an argument long enough, especially one filled with passion and politics, and there is a good chance that someone will eventually invoke the name of Adolf Hitler. I’ve heard it done by both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, and...
by Joe Conn | Sep 24, 2010 | Opinion
Poor John Leland. He must be spinning like a top in his grave in Cheshire Cemetery in Cheshire, Mass. You may not know Elder Leland, but you ought to. He was a Baptist preacher and great stalwart of civil and religious liberty in our nation’s founding period. An...
by Drew Smith | Sep 23, 2010 | Opinion
The heart of Jesus’ message is the desire for peace. At one level, Jesus called people to follow him as a path to finding peace with God. Yet, at a more experiential level, Jesus called people to be at peace with one another. Indeed, in the Sermon on the Mount...
by Bill Wilson | Sep 23, 2010 | Opinion
In the midst of the pandemic of conflict swirling through local churches in the 21st century, it is tempting to lose heart. Many do. I have had heartbreaking conversations with scores of clergy and laity who have emerged from bruising local church conflicts filled...
