by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 2, 2010 | Opinion
I love this time of year when spring is turning into summer, when my squash plants are producing and the tomatoes are promising, when mosquitoes have yet to emerge full force. The massive greenness of the season and the delightful counterpoint of bright flowers here...
by Robert Parham | Jun 2, 2010 | Opinion
Unchecked falsehood multiplies mendacity and quickly becomes an acceptable truth. One persistent falsehood is that Islam is by definition a violent religion. Call it the Franklin Graham Falsehood. Remember that Graham defined Islam as “a very violent...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 2, 2010 | Opinion
Jesus is hardly the hero in the story from Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels about the centurion (Roman army officer) in Capernaum who sends Jewish representatives to Jesus to seek healing for a favored slave. (See Luke 7:1-10 and Matthew 8:5-13.) And Jesus...
by Glenn Jonas | Jun 2, 2010 | Opinion
Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM), an organization for which I have a tremendous amount of respect, sells a T-shirt with the phrase, “This is what a preacher looks like.” I love that slogan. I teach religion majors at Campbell University in North Carolina....
by John D. Pierce | Jun 1, 2010 | Opinion
In a recent Religion News Service column, Rabbi James Rudin, senior interreligious adviser for the American Jewish Committee, considered how marketing firms might advise various religious groups. He addressed the loss of “market share” among mainline...
by Ron Crawford | Jun 1, 2010 | Opinion
Church life in modern America is characterized by the loss of a “consensus in the middle” and the growing influence of the political and theological right and left – as we have experienced in the national political environment. The disappearing middle is...
