by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 3, 2009 | Opinion
June is here, traditionally a popular month for weddings, though I suspect that goes back to the days when young folk were expected to marry shortly after high school or college, and weddings followed graduation.If a lot of past weddings occurred in June, that means a...
by Keith Herron | Jun 3, 2009 | Opinion
The congregation could hear the gunshot as Dr. George Tiller was murdered in the narthex of his own Lutheran church in Wichita, Kan., on a sunny Sunday morning. His wife, who sang in the church choir, also heard the single shot that killed him on May 31. Tiller was...
by James McGrath | Jun 3, 2009 | Opinion
We talked about Islam in my Sunday School class not long ago. In recent weeks, we had turned to the subject of how Christians might or should view other religions, and it was felt that those in the class would benefit from learning more about other religions. It is...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 2, 2009 | Opinion
It only took two or three notes of Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 hit “Spirit in the Sky” to appear on the car radio before my teenage daughter had reached the volume dial and turned it up high. A special satisfaction comes when she enjoys the same music that I embraced when...
by Robert Parham | Jun 2, 2009 | Opinion
The last place one would expect to meet the father of Jesus is in a Washington, D.C., office shoehorned between the Supreme Court and the Dirksen Senate Office Building. But meet him I did. And he is a Muslim. Yes, the father of Jesus is a Muslim. Sayyid Mohammed...
by Matthew Norman | Jun 2, 2009 | Opinion
What will the church look like in 50 years? We all know that something is afoot and have seen the decline in membership in many churches. Many know people that have never, and never plan, to go to a church. The political and social influence upon society that...
