by Gary Furr | Nov 13, 2002 | Opinion
A church too focused on the “bottom line” needs to get more interested in what is at “the bottom of our souls” and help people who are asking for it. Edward Sellner believes this hunger is not a fad but a harbinger of needed change. Sellner is...
by Robert Parham | Nov 13, 2002 | Opinion
Staying on the high rhetorical road about Islam necessitates staying away from the mud puddles of Christian fundamentalism. “Tonight we honor the traditions of a great faith by hosting this Iftaar at the White House,” he said. “Ramadan is a special...
by Dwight A. Moody | Nov 13, 2002 | Opinion
What we are not seeing are the cold, dead bodies of thousands of people shot dead every day in our own dear America, by virtue of which we have become the most violent nation on the face of the earth. What is not dead is the hope that someday, somewhere in America...
by Lynn Traylor | Nov 12, 2002 | Opinion
In our digital, high-tech, fast-paced lifestyles, we are bombarded by calls to focus our attention on ourselves, what we can have and what we deserve. If we’re not careful, we can spend our time and energies “watching clouds” and “feeling the...
by Gary Farley | Nov 12, 2002 | Opinion
An alarming statistic from the report is that only about 20 to 25 percent of the adherents to the Baptist movement will be found in worship in a Baptist church on a given Sunday. This suggests that there is a lot of work to do within the congregations in the field of...
by Barry Howard | Nov 11, 2002 | Opinion
However you define or describe postmodernism, the reality of its growing impact on our culture and on the work of the church within our culture requires the church reaffirm its mission, re-think its strategy, and re-equip its membership for a new era. Simply put,...
