by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 18, 2002 | Opinion
“The Two Towers”—like the trilogy’s first installment, “The Fellowship of the Ring”—is a massive movie in terms of narrative, production and box office. But the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work shines most brilliantly through...
by Michael Helms | Dec 18, 2002 | Opinion
There are still lots of things to do between now and Christmas. Unfortunately, many of us are so busy we will miss the person standing between us and Christmas, a man who’s pointing us in the direction we need to go: John the Baptist. How can you miss John the...
by Eddie Hammett | Dec 18, 2002 | Opinion
Congregations are starving for leadership in these challenging days marked by increasingly complex family issues, community and cultural shifts, greater fear and anxiety, and increasing expectations for pastor-led pastoral care. Congregations are starving for...
by Gary Farley | Dec 17, 2002 | Opinion
In the smaller places, those people with material needs are visible. They are people that we know and see regularly. Demonstrations of love are face to face. Here, we cannot retreat into some gilded ghetto and not deal with basic needs until Christmas comes around...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Dec 17, 2002 | Opinion
The year of our Lord 2002 will be known, in history texts yet to be written, mostly for economic recession, our war against terrorism, and the Bush campaign against Iraq. The church must add to that litany of infamy, however, another crisis-come-to-light. We must...
by Michael Helms | Dec 17, 2002 | Opinion
My grandfather used to have a gourd dipper that hung on a nail from the back of his house. People who fished in his pond would stop by to tell him what kind of luck they had and to get a refreshing drink of cool water that came from a nearby well. Nothing has been...
