by Nell Green | Dec 6, 2017 | Opinion
It is called “the door of no return.” It is a chilling site. Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is notorious for the slave house that was the departure point for many slaves headed to North America during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. A gang...
by Paul Beasley-Murray | Dec 6, 2017 | Opinion
A Sept. 22 headline in The Telegraph proclaimed this: “Bible passage used to stop women become ordained ‘added later,’ academic claims.” The academic in question is Philip Payne, who in the October 2017 issue of “New Testament...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 5, 2017 | Opinion
We desperately need Advent this year, more than any time I can remember. This season of waiting with expectation and preparing for the coming of Christmas offers a time for Christians to reflect upon our lives and the world around us. It is a season for understanding...
by Shane McNary | Dec 5, 2017 | Opinion
Voltaire’s formulation about the indispensability of God has been applied frequently to the United Nations, “If the United Nations did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.” The U.N.’s charter was signed in June 1945 and went into...
by Ferrell Foster | Dec 5, 2017 | Opinion
The tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would roll back the 1954 law prohibiting partisan political involvement by nonprofit organizations, including churches. The Senate version that passed over the weekend does not directly address the so-called...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 4, 2017 | Opinion
The recognition, preservation and expansion of human rights took a substantial step forward on Dec. 10, 1948, when the United Nations approved a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presented the...
