by Ken Meyers | Aug 21, 2003 | Opinion
Stand back! The Religious Education of Adults, by authors Leon McKenzie and R. Michael Harton, takes aim, shoots straight, and assigns blame for substandard religious education practice in the church. What’s an educator to do? It is here that McKenzie and Harton...
by Robert Parham | Aug 20, 2003 | Opinion
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is no Martin Luther King, Jr. Efforts to portray the religious right’s agenda on the Ten Commandments as a kin to the civil rights movement cheapens King’s legacy and veils a conservative Christian agenda. Neither the common...
by Karen Johnson Zurheide | Aug 20, 2003 | Opinion
Relieved. More than ready. Eager to have someone else occupy their children day in and day out. That’s how many parents probably feel about the beginning of another school year. But despite an unusually long summer, I, for one, am dreading the start of school. I...
by Jack Brymer | Aug 19, 2003 | Opinion
“What is all this business about child sex abuse by clergy going to do to the church,” I was asked recently. The question begs an honest response. While the spotlight in recent months has been on priests of the Catholic faith, ministerial immorality knows...
by Richard Wilson | Aug 18, 2003 | Opinion
Just over 30 years ago John Howard Yoder published his stinging critique of the image of Jesus that had become widely accepted in the academy and the church. The Politics of Jesus is as relevant today as it was in 1972. Scholarship in the last century regularly...
by Michael Helms | Aug 18, 2003 | Opinion
One responsibility of a pastor is to visit people when they are hospitalized. When people’s lives are disrupted by loss of health, they need support and love. It’s an opportunity for the minister to say on behalf of the church, “We care about...
