by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 15, 2008 | Opinion
I attended an academic conference for relatively new professors in Chicago last weekend, and it was a positive experience that gave me a chance to meet and learn from other theological school professors from all around the U.S. and Canada.The meeting included round...
by Robert Parham | Oct 15, 2008 | Opinion
More than prophetic critique and hollow promises of political change, perhaps what our culture really needs from church leaders is a word of hope ”hope understood as the courage to wait.News reports offer a grim picture: The Los Angles Times reported Tuesday that...
by Don Garner | Oct 15, 2008 | Opinion
Most of us need a place ”a physical yet sacred space ”where we can go to devote ourselves to a focused encounter with the very presence of God. Jesus himself spent considerable time around the Temple in Jerusalem. He recognized and utilized its value as a center for...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 14, 2008 | Opinion
Abortion and homosexuality are legitimate ethical issues for Christians to consider. But only within the last quarter-century has the broad field of Christian ethics, for some, been almost exclusively defined by these two issues.So it is not surprising that...
by Mark McEntire | Oct 14, 2008 | Opinion
The title song opens the collection by juxtaposing elaborate pleasures with simple ones. It comes closer to rock-and-roll than any other selection on the album and grabs the attention of the listener, alerting us to the significance of the word “day,”...
by Dwight A. Moody | Oct 14, 2008 | Opinion
It was the religious people who first injected the language of battlefield into the civic debate. They did so, first, in religious struggles, as Baptists in the South can attest. The struggle to dominate was not simply among brothers who disagreed on this or that; it...
