by Bill Wilson | Jun 15, 2018 | Opinion
Ready for a vocabulary lesson? Stagnant. Boring. Aimless. Tired. Tepid. What do these words describe? You? Your minister? Your church? Your Sunday School class? Your career? All too often, I hear ministers and parishioners alike using such words to describe all of the...
by John Daugherty | Jun 14, 2018 | Opinion
There is a good deal of parsing of Scripture these days declaring such things as “complementarian” relationships between men and women, what is and what is not an “abomination,” and whether freedom of religion trumps freedom of speech. People...
by David L. Clough | Jun 13, 2018 | Opinion
I’m grateful to Martin Hodson for highlighting the tensions between environmental and animal ethics. The approaches have a very great deal in common, of course. Those beginning with animal ethics are acutely aware that the major threat to the well-being of wild...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 12, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce As a denominational body that has capitulated to fundamentalist power, the Southern Baptist Convention is at times a curiosity to me, but not a matter of real interest. I moved on long ago. Primarily, it revels in irrelevancy — passionately debating...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 12, 2018 | Opinion
Archaeology lovers who have joined the Jezreel Expedition archaeological dig for the next two weeks started getting down and dirty on Monday and Tuesday. Monday began before sunup with an orientation walk from Jezreel’s upper tel to the lower tel, with...
by Martin J. Hodson | Jun 12, 2018 | Opinion
Many years ago, I was manning a booth for Sage, Oxford’s Christian environmental group, at the annual Green Fair in Oxford Town Hall. One of the visitors to the booth was Andrew Linzey, the leading Christian animal ethicist. Linzey was concerned that, in his...
