by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
I noticed something surprising this morning. As I contemplated a bloggy meditation on Mary’s having ridden a donkey the 80 miles or so of dirt roads between Nazareth and Bethlehem, I re-read the story, for perhaps the thousandth time. And what I noticed, because...
by Robert Parham | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
Forgotten in Christmas homilies and hymns is the gritty story of human of resistance. Yes, resistance. Of course, resistance is a cold word that chills the warmth of joy to the world and peace on earth. Some might say it is a negative word, especially members of the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
The latest comedy from Adam Sandler, which opens Christmas Day, is mostly innocuous and average. “Bedtime Stories” stars former “Saturday Night Live” funnyman Sandler as Skeeter, a hotel handyman who knows his place. But when his divorced sister, Wendy (Courteney...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 23, 2008 | Opinion
My first realization of how media technology is changing came in 1999. Word reached The Christian Index office in Atlanta (where I was managing editor) that pastoral care pioneer Wayne Oates had died in Louisville.It would be a story that our staff would edit and...
by Michael Helms | Dec 23, 2008 | Opinion
In the children’s book The Tree that Survived the Winter, a tree realizes it has survived the hardships of winter. “Her roots seemed to be extending further and more firmly into the soil. Her arms seemed to embrace more of the world, not with the timid...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 23, 2008 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final column in a series. On Election Day—Nov. 4—I drove to Wilmore, Ky., to hear Shane Claiborne speak in the chapel of Asbury Seminary. Shane is the young man, now living in the Philadelphia area, who wrote the best-selling...
