by Ircel Harrison | Jul 9, 2009 | Opinion
My colleague Mark Tidsworth recently posted a topic on the Facebook page for Pinnacle Leadership Associates that generated a lot of response. The topic was the loneliness experienced by many ministers, especially the senior pastor. Pastors are involved with people...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 8, 2009 | Opinion
The sun rose July 8 as it does every other day, but for members participating in a tour of Israel sponsored by Campbell University Divinity School, it rose over the Sea of Galilee, and it was a beautiful sight. I doubt that many of us saw it as participants continue...
by Robert Parham | Jul 8, 2009 | Opinion
Distance is shrinking between Baptist and Muslim leaders in America — faster than rank-and-file members realize. On a recent Saturday morning in California, a Muslim leader spoke at the biennial gathering of the American Baptist Churches-USA. One week later in...
by Ed Sunday-Winters | Jul 8, 2009 | Opinion
The crowd is great and presses in on Jesus. A father approaches Jesus with an urgent plea to heal his daughter. Jesus goes with the man to his house. On the way, a woman who has been ailing for 12 years gets close enough to Jesus to touch his cloak. She is healed...
by Daniel Carro | Jul 8, 2009 | Opinion
The hopes and celebrations of the Fourth of July did not conceal the toughness of our times. Not even fireworks were considered immune from the cuts. People in the United States are learning painfully how to accommodate to what ABC News has called “the new...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 7, 2009 | Opinion
Forty-two students, alumni, faculty, and friends of Campbell University Divinity School embarked on a tour of Israel July 6. For the next several days, I’ll be tracking our course along the coast, through the upper Galilee, down through the rift valley, and all about...
