by Caroline Pomeroy | Mar 9, 2018 | Opinion
As I drove with my family through a remote valley in southwestern Uganda 10 years ago, we entered a vast landscape of devastation – thousands of hectares of hillside stripped bare of indigenous forest and replanted with sterile rows of eucalyptus and conifers....
by Ron Rolheiser | Mar 9, 2018 | Opinion
Classically, Christianity has listed seven sins as “deadly” sins, meaning that most everything else we do that is not virtuous somehow takes its root in one these congenital propensities. These are the infamous seven: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony,...
by Leroy Seat | Mar 9, 2018 | Opinion
Are we living in the best or the worst of times? Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard University, addresses this question in his latest book released in January under the title “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 8, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Remember when the Religious Right (a.k.a., Moral Majority, Christian fundamentalists) jumped into politics a few decades ago to tout their commitment to “family values?” Well, that was a big, fat lie. It turns out, as many of us knew at the time,...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 8, 2018 | Opinion
Humor columnist Dave Barry once quipped, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.'” How many times have you been in...
by Colin Harris | Mar 8, 2018 | Opinion
It has been about a month now since the presentation of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Illumination Project report, and the conversation in response to it has continued, as it should. People and entities have pondered and even acted upon affiliation and...
