by John D. Pierce | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
A guest on CNN this morning said President Barack Obama’s name is a factor in so many Americans’ failure to acknowledge him as a Christian. As has been widely reported recently, only one-third of Americans identified the president’s faith as Christian and 1 in 5,...
by Charles McGathy | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .” The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States I don’t get it. Surely the Founding Fathers did not mean what this says....
by Bill Wilson | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
What do we make of the rising tide of conflict in local congregations? First of all, is there actually an increase in conflict? Anecdotally, the number of calls and conversations we are having around conflict seem to indicate that local church conflict is becoming...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
As I was mowing my lawn recently, taking care to cut at a different angle than the previous mowing, I remembered a quick glance from a bus window that had made a lasting impression.While riding a shuttle bus from Honolulu’s airport to the Ala Moana Hotel last...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 21, 2010 | Opinion
Although I have seen the image of a sankofa many times, it’s meaning had never dawned on me. But in the alumni magazine of Columbia Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian school that let me slip through many years ago, Pam Cottrell noted the mythical West African...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 20, 2010 | Opinion
It’s bad enough that right-wing opportunists have turned the proposed building of a mosque near New York City’s “Ground Zero” into a political mowing machine designed to make hay for their anti-Obama cause, claiming that the proposed mosque...
