by Wissam al-Saliby | Oct 17, 2019 | Opinion
A Swiss journalist recently asked me during an interview, “Should Christian organizations be neutral toward governments?” when the killing of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was brought up. The implications of neutrality were that business can continue as usual...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 16, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Eggs, milk, bananas and coffee are easy for me to find. But my grocery shopping efficiency breaks down when pursuing certain items. Much like when driving off course on an unfamiliar highway, I tend to continue on a serpentine route up and down the...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 16, 2019 | Opinion
A lot of us fear we are “not enough.” In some of us, that fear exists alongside anxiety that we are “too much.” Whether we feel that we lack something that would qualify us for acceptance or that we have an excess of something that threatens people who want to keep us...
by Christian McIvor | Oct 15, 2019 | Opinion
A Statement on Environmental Justice was adopted during the Alliance of Baptists’ annual gathering in Dayton, Ohio, in April 2018. The statement calls us, as individuals and as a community of faith, to: Preach, teach and live a theology of beloved communityRespond...
by Laura Landgraf | Oct 15, 2019 | Opinion
Teresa (not her real name) never thought it would happen to her. One of her children, the middle of five, caused a seismic shift in the landscape of their family when she haltingly disclosed that her daddy was molesting her. Of course, her daughter didn’t use the word...
by Alex Awad | Oct 15, 2019 | Opinion
Israel’s apologists never seem to tire of pointing a finger of accusation at the Palestinian Authority with allegations that it persecutes Palestinian Christians. Hence, they say, the decline of the indigenous Christian population in the Palestinian territories. Jesus...
