by Britt Towery | Jan 18, 2007 | Opinion
With nearly a decade of weekly column writing this one is unique. This is the first time I ever wrote one on my birthday. About six o’clock this morning, 77 years ago, I was born out on Seventh Street in Brownwood, Texas, U.S.A. It was a Sunday and I was the...
by Heather Entrekin | Jan 18, 2007 | Opinion
When I was a teenager, many years ago, the ministerial alliance in our small town organized Wednesday early morning devotions and doughnuts for youth during Lent. They were held at the Methodist church across the street. My father, the Baptist pastor, was one of the...
by Scott Higgins | Jan 17, 2007 | Opinion
Care for a Pacific Island holiday with sun drenched beaches, towering palms, crystal oceans and brilliant reefs? Scientists tell us that within a generation or two global warming may well bring an end to such adventures. And it’s not just your holiday that is...
by Larry Wilson | Jan 17, 2007 | Opinion
When I was a young man in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was a time of great social upheaval with a war in Vietnam that history has determined to be a horrible blunder and a civil rights movement that would bring a more just world into being. The...
by Bruce Hunter | Jan 16, 2007 | Opinion
It is written in the gospel of Mark that Jesus came “proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news'” (Mark 1:14-15; NRSV). With this message, our Lord...
by James L. Evans | Jan 15, 2007 | Opinion
In his elegant little book, “Finally Comes the Poet,” Walter Brueggemann writes that the task of the preacher is to be “a voice that shatters settled reality and evokes new possibilities.” If he is right about that, then no preacher in the last...
