Worries About Workplace Reform

Australia’s Parliament began debate Wednesday on WorkChoices, a government plan for federal workplace reform. Billed as “a simpler, fairer national workplace relations system for Australia,” the bill is aimed at improving productivity, creating jobs...

Taking Blue-Ribbon Stock of Wal-Mart’s Employees

According to an internal company memo leaked to the New York Times, Wal-Mart is considering hiring fitter and healthier employees in order to combat its own version of a national problem: higher health benefit costs. The Houston Chronicle reported that executive vice...

Re-examining Capital Punishment

The current race for governor in Virginia has prompted prayerful questions again about our use of capital punishment. Having been a chaplain in two penal institutions and having served as a pastor for over 26 years to families of victims of homicide, and having been a...

‘Beyond the Gates of Splendor’

Now available on DVD and VHS is “Beyond the Gates of Splendor,” the beautifully told story of five American missionaries who were speared to death by tribesmen in Ecuador in 1956. Audiences might be familiar with the story on account of Through Gates of...

Why Some People Like Sports

Near the end of the movie “Field of Dreams,” when James Earl Jones’ character explains the movement of time and history as guarded and guided by the movements of baseball, not everyone buys it. I did, because I like the game and the movie (which is...

Holy Terror and Halloween

Halloween is here and as always there seems to be something for everyone. Kids get candy, big kids get beer and folks of all ages give expression to their alter egos by means of outrageous costumes. Of course, not everyone will be having fun. Church leaders annually...