by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 13, 2017 | Opinion
A real difference exists between our achievements and our fruitfulness, between our successes and the actual good that we bring into the world. What we achieve brings us success, gives us a sense of pride, makes our families and friends proud of us and gives us a...
by Stuart Blythe | Oct 12, 2017 | Opinion
William Willimon’s latest book, “Who Lynched Willie Earle? Preaching to Confront Racism,” often draws on his own Methodist tradition in order to honestly name racism as sin and engage in acts of “detoxification, renovation and...
by Larry Eubanks | Oct 12, 2017 | Opinion
The first and most basic step toward doing something evil is when you consider another person as something less. Less godly. Less good. Less human. When Europeans decided Africans with their superstitious religions were less godly, with their cannibilistic ways were...
by Michael Ruffin | Oct 12, 2017 | Opinion
What does it mean to love someone? Jesus said that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. If we’re going to love somebody that way, then we need to know how we love ourselves. To love myself means that I want what’s best for me. I want to be...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 11, 2017 | Opinion
Maybe you remember the desperate and destitute sharecropper in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” who was being evicted from farming the land by its owners who had to return it to the bank. The “owner men,” as Steinbeck called them,...
by Katie Swafford | Oct 10, 2017 | Opinion
I loved watching the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Christmas movies when I was a child. OK, to be honest, I still love watching them. The animation was fun, and the songs catchy. One song I still sing in my head when tough times come along is “Put One Foot in...
