by Brett Younger | Apr 18, 2003 | Opinion
On Sunday, people all over the United States will put on new shoes and wonder if they should have gotten a half-size larger. They briefly consider going out for pancakes, but abandon that plan in favor of searching through the plastic grass in the bottom of their...
by Jan Turrentine | Apr 18, 2003 | Opinion
Occasionally you have an experience you know you will always remember. One of my most profound occurred at the theological seminary in Nanjing, China. Earlier my group had toured Amity Press in that city and had watched as jubilant Chinese workers pulled pages of the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 17, 2003 | Opinion
The qualities that make “Holes” hard to synopsize also make it a good story. But there’s more afoot than simple character-building, as any fan of Louis Sachar’s 1998 award-winning children’s novel can attest. The qualities that make...
by James L. Evans | Apr 16, 2003 | Opinion
The deadly force that fell from the sky over Baghdad was entirely of this world. It was neither life-giving nor life-affirming. And however necessary the onslaught may have been, its effect was awful, not awe-inspiring. But awe is something else. Awe is basically a...
by Michael Helms | Apr 15, 2003 | Opinion
There are days when we are heavily burdened with grief, fatigue and our own failures. We climb into the pulpit with great struggle, even to the point of asking ourselves at times, “Do I really believe what I am about to preach?” I had left a land of...
by Dwight A. Moody | Apr 14, 2003 | Opinion
People with power often seek to suppress ideas, but it rarely works. Just ask Zedekiah. He ruled over Jerusalem when it was surrounded by the armies of Babylon (ancient Iraq!). The year was 586 B.C. The prophet Jeremiah warned the people and their leaders that God...
