by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 8, 2018 | Opinion
Racism and sexism are increasingly, and belatedly, being identified as big issues at North American, Western European and Australian universities and are not merely “developing country” phenomena. See, for instance, the recent report from a British task...
by Richard Wilson | May 7, 2018 | Opinion
Today, the life of Rev. Dr. James Hal Cone will be celebrated at Riverside Church in New York City. Immediately after the service, his mortal remains will be interred at Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Over the last week and more, the story of...
by Matthew J. Tuininga | May 7, 2018 | Opinion
The reformers broke dramatically with the Roman Catholic Church when it came to the doctrines of salvation and ecclesiology. They did not do so with respect to ethics. In fact, in some ways, their views were closer to traditional Catholic ethical thought than they...
by Daniel Schweissing | May 4, 2018 | Opinion
Interfaith cooperation was the last thing on my mind. Having grown up in a conservative Baptist church, studied in an evangelical seminary and served as an American Baptist missionary in the predominantly Christian countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, I...
by Mitch Randall | May 3, 2018 | Opinion
Genesis details the family origins of Abraham and his sons. After receiving a promise from Yahweh, Abraham bore his first son through Sarah’s Egyptian servant, Hagar. Hagar’s son was named Ishmael. Years later, Sarah bore Abraham a second son, Isaac....
by Carol Stagner | May 3, 2018 | Opinion
My interfaith journey began early one August morning as my new kindergarten students entered my classroom. Some came in eagerly, some were shy and a few shed a tear or two. The room filled with parents who were also eager, shy and shedding tears. One little girl with...