by Matthew J. Tuininga | Nov 6, 2017 | Opinion
Christians have sometimes claimed that the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” forbids government from ever mandating the redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor. According to this interpretation, the status quo is the result of...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 3, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce My friend Steve Bean and I grew up in church-going families. As teenagers we found our first “real jobs” (defined by a paycheck with tax withholdings) at the restaurant in a newly opened Days Inn along I-75 at the Georgia-Tennessee border. Our...
by Pam Durso | Nov 3, 2017 | Opinion
Churches around the globe paused earlier this week and remembered the courage of a man named Martin – and rightfully so. Martin Luther’s challenge of the Catholic Church on Oct. 31, 1517, reshaped the 16th-century Christian landscape, and it continues to...
by Michael Parnell | Nov 3, 2017 | Opinion
The concept of “spiritual but not religious” arises in nearly every conversation about faith these days. While watching “Same Kind of Different as Me,” I got the feeling that is what the movie was trying to be. The movie tells the story of an...
by Mark Tidsworth | Nov 3, 2017 | Opinion
We are constantly training ourselves on what we really believe is important, though typically with little conscious awareness. This is particularly true of congregations. How so? Whatever our leaders talk about most often is what we come to believe is really...
by Colin Harris | Nov 2, 2017 | Opinion
Baptist icon George W. Truett was the focus of a recent high school assembly in Hayesville, North Carolina, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clay County native’s birth. An invitation to participate in the event sent me to Keith Durso’s excellent...
