by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 30, 2017 | Opinion
Day in and day out, I putter in my Prius like geezer, trying to break the 70 miles per gallon barrier. Every now and then, though, a man needs to be near some real horsepower. Welcome to truck racing. Thanks to my friend David Daly, I recently spent a day at the...
by Ircel Harrison | Oct 27, 2017 | Opinion
Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights icon. As founder of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, he argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won all but three. The most notable may have been Brown v. Board of Education, which threw out the “separate...
by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 27, 2017 | Opinion
A number of years ago, I attended a funeral. The man to whom we were saying goodbye had enjoyed a full and rich life. He’d reached the age of 90 and was respected for having been both successful and honest. But he’d always been a strong man, a natural...
by Nick Lear | Oct 26, 2017 | Opinion
Recent events have led to a heart-breaking hashtag trending on the internet: #metoo. Women around the world are using this to speak out about the misogynistic or abusive treatment they have received at the hands of men. It has taken the immense courage of the women...
by Stuart Blythe | Oct 26, 2017 | Opinion
The style of proclamation is essential when preaching to confront racism, according to William Willimon, a U.S. theologian and bishop in the United Methodist Church. “What is said by the preacher may not be as important as how it is said. Style, the manner of...
by Neville Callam | Oct 26, 2017 | Opinion
The church, which is the creation of God’s Word and God’s Spirit, belongs to God. It is holy, and the holiness of the church stands in contrast to individual and communal sin. Historically, sin, which runs counter to the church’s nature and vocation,...
