by Beth Allison Barr | Jan 4, 2018 | Opinion
“I hate Paul.” I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that from female undergraduates. Young women scarred by how many times passages from the Pauline epistles have been used against them: women be silent (1 Corinthians 14), wives submit to...
by Lynne Hybels | Jan 3, 2018 | Opinion
I stood in a refugee center in the former Yugoslavia in the early ’90s, a country destroyed by the bitter hatred that fueled the Balkan War. I listened, heartsick, to stories of mass rapes of hundreds of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers. Like the world, I was...
by Colin Harris | Jan 3, 2018 | Opinion
Ethics has to do with choosing – what we choose, how we choose, why we choose. From the simplest of decisions about daily behaviors to the most comprehensive choices of ideologies that frame our understandings of the world, those choices set the trajectory of...
by Rupen Das | Jan 3, 2018 | Opinion
Christians who desire to change or transform the world too often fall into an anthropocentric outlook in which they see themselves as central and as the main actors of social change. Change is possible, evil can be pushed back, and the quality of life improved. Yet,...
by Chris Smith | Jan 2, 2018 | Opinion
An intriguing description of one of Jesus’ followers is found in Luke 8:1-4: “Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward or household manager.” One can only imagine the conversations held between Joanna and her husband, Chuza, the...
by Rupen Das | Jan 2, 2018 | Opinion
The word “transformation” appears on the website of nearly every Christian organization involved in addressing poverty and social injustice. Speak to college students about their aspirations, it would not be unusual to hear some of them talk about wanting...
