by James L. Evans | Nov 26, 2002 | Opinion
Cut off from our traditional sources of reflection, people of faith get confused about what is right and wrong. Trying to honor a piece of Scripture, we become unfaithful to the rest of it. Hardly knowing how we even got there, we find ourselves in blatant conflict...
by Paul Montacute | Nov 26, 2002 | Opinion
The figures just did not add up when I used my United States thinking. Then again, we base our finances on budgets, and these folks base theirs on faith. I recently experienced so much of the vibrant life in South Africa’s Baptist churches today. I attended a...
by Brett Younger | Nov 26, 2002 | Opinion
It was too late when I received an urgent e-mail from [email protected] warning me about “the curse of an abomination with which Satan seeks to fill our land.” Naturally I assumed it would be a prophetic word against racism, sexism or...
by Marv Knox | Nov 26, 2002 | Opinion
Very happy people are OK, according to a “standard happiness test” conducted by professors Ed Diener of the University of Illinois and Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. The happiness gurus compared a sample of very happy college...
by Barry Howard | Nov 25, 2002 | Opinion
It’s that time of year again! The frantic holiday season is about to begin. In our over-commercialized culture, Thanksgiving Day has become the kickoff for the Christmas blitz. Unless you take charge of your holiday schedule, you will succumb to clever...
by Dwight A. Moody | Nov 25, 2002 | Opinion
In the world of organized religion, centralized authority is rolling in at full tide, while at the scattered edges of the globe the freedoms of the faithful ebb away. Consider these episodes: American bishops of the Roman Catholic Church recently gathered in the...
