by Mitch Randall | Aug 16, 2018 | Opinion
The first day of school is either here or fast-approaching for millions of children, teachers and educators across the United States. Eager and bright minds will walk through the school doors ready for a new school year to begin. When some students walk through the...
by Ircel Harrison | Aug 16, 2018 | Opinion
The Global Leadership Summit, which began as a project of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, and its founding pastor, Bill Hybels, more than 25 years ago, was held last week without Hybels. For several years now, the Willow Creek Association,...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Aug 16, 2018 | Opinion
The three major events of life – birth, marriage and death – are marked by three traditional Christian rites of passage: the christening (or service of thanksgiving), the wedding and the funeral. Within the context of a nominal society, these three occasions are often...
by Ron Rolheiser | Aug 15, 2018 | Opinion
He’s a loser! You’re a loser! Among all the hurtful slurs we mindlessly utter, this particular one is perhaps the most hurtful and damaging. It needs to be forbidden in our public discourse and stricken from our vocabulary. We’ve come a long way today in forbidding...
by Nick Lear | Aug 15, 2018 | Opinion
There are far more nuances to consider and interpretive traps to avoid when I read the Bible than I realized were there when I was younger. For example, when I was younger in the faith, I used to think that the “lost” parables in Luke 15 were only about how God loves...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 14, 2018 | Opinion
Does cooperation create a sense of solidarity and moral obligation toward one’s partners? A recent World Bank working paper suggests that it does. The paper shares findings from an experiment in which participants were organized into groups of three. Some sets of...
