by Michael Shaw | Aug 24, 2018 | Opinion
I recently watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called “Get Rich or Die Young.” The program reported from Teeside, United Kingdom, which has the country’s worst health inequality: The life expectancy difference between...
by Agnes Howard | Aug 24, 2018 | Opinion
Can theology fix the college-party scene? In a recent book, “College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics,” Jennifer Beste, Koch Chair for Catholic Thought and Culture at the College of Saint Benedict, proposes theology as the remedy for what’s wrong with the...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 23, 2018 | Opinion
The “Queen of Soul” joined the celestial choir after 76 years of beautifully and powerfully singing her gospel to the world. As the daughter of Rev. C.L. Franklin, an influential Baptist minister in Detroit, Aretha Franklin honed her voice in the black church and its...
by Merianna Harrelson | Aug 23, 2018 | Opinion
I’ve been pondering, lamenting and praying about the children separated from their families at the U.S. border. I’ve read as many different reports as I can trying desperately to understand the different sides of the issue, how long the practice has been taking place,...
by James L. Evans | Aug 23, 2018 | Opinion
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced recently the creation of a task force whose primary task will be to save Jesus. To be fair, that is not how Sessions described the work of the task force. He said that the goal was to defend and promote religious liberty. The...
by Roger Olson | Aug 22, 2018 | Opinion
What are the greatest dangers to Christianity today? Notice that I am not asking, “What are the greatest dangers to Christians?” I am assuming the reality of something I am here calling “Christianity,” which is, to me, anyway, more than the aggregate of people who...
