by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
“Sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” That’s a counsel from the Book of Lamentations and, while perhaps not the best response to the recent revelations of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in the Roman Catholic Church, it seems the...
by Leroy Seat | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
Too little is almost always better than too much. My children probably didn’t appreciate me mentioning it so much, but from time to time I would remind them of this. That saying was not in harmony with the “Zeitgeist,” the spirit of the age, in which we were living...
by Mitch Randall | Sep 6, 2018 | Opinion
Nike revealed this week that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be one of the faces for its new “Just Do It” marketing campaign. The first installment of the campaign has a black-and-white photo of Kaepernick with these words embossed over...
by Christopher Schilling | Sep 6, 2018 | Opinion
Most of us living in the U.S. own a lot of stuff. In fact, Americans have on average 300,000 items in their homes. And with the average size of the American home tripling in the past 50 years, 10 percent of us rent offsite storage space culminating into the biggest...
by Molly T. Marshall | Sep 6, 2018 | Opinion
I sat down with Dr. Wallace S. Hartsfield II, who holds the Fred E. Young Chair of Hebrew Bible at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, during a recent faculty retreat. He also serves as pastor of the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church of Kansas City, Missouri, a...
by Grace Mitchell | Sep 5, 2018 | Opinion
Where are the women? I was left pondering this question after attending the Texas Baptist Family Gathering in Arlington a few weeks ago. It was a wonderful weekend of worship, fellowship and learning about issues facing the church today. On the first night of the...