by Gary Leazer | Feb 18, 2003 | Opinion
The first words a baby hears after birth is the word of witness. The last words a person is supposed to hear before death is the word of witness. It is supposed to be a unifying statement among the world’s one billion Muslims. But the word of witness is also a...
by Jan Turrentine | Feb 18, 2003 | Opinion
Changing Sunday school curriculum seems complicated for some churches because different curriculum publishers follow different publishing cycles. Lifeway, for example, produces its dated curriculum in quarterly cycles that run September through November, December...
by Jan Turrentine | Feb 17, 2003 | Opinion
Whether it’s bread, cars, laundry detergents or wireless service, consumers want options. Churches want options for Sunday school curriculum, too. A product that used to require only a shelf or two—bread—now occupies an entire aisle. And that doesn’t...
by Barry Howard | Feb 17, 2003 | Opinion
How long has it been since you read the prophets? In the Old Testament, the prophets are considered the covenant spokespeople of God. Often, the prophets are misunderstood to be “foretellers” who predict what will happen and when. Actually the prophets are...
by Roger Thomas | Feb 17, 2003 | Opinion
Perhaps the greatest lesson of the film is to set higher standards for oneself in the beginning; then the dreams that are realized will truly be worthwhile. As one looks upon the older face of the former host of “The Gong Show,” the film’s narrator...
by Robert Parham | Feb 14, 2003 | Opinion
President Bush is out of step with the leadership of the American religious community in his rush to war with Iraq. Despite having made faith-based initiatives a key component to his domestic policy and being the most overtly religious president in over 20 years, Bush...
