by Ferrell Foster | Oct 10, 2017 | Opinion
I lay for three hours on a hospital bed with pain from kidney stones. The first shot of morphine had little impact; the second got me to a much better place. This took place a few years ago. Now, I read this: “Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic...
by Roger Olson | Oct 10, 2017 | Opinion
Ought I to repent of being white and male? I have had this question posed to me in one form or another on several occasions over the years. As I explained in my previous post, I think I have discerned three distinct meanings of the call for white people and males to...
by Ginger Hughes | Oct 9, 2017 | Opinion
By: Ginger Hughes What is happening? This has been a lingering thought as I’ve scrolled through my newsfeed over the past few months. A white nationalist rally in Virginia. A vehicle driving into a crowd of people, killing one and injuring others. North Korea and the...
by Ron Wachs | Oct 9, 2017 | Opinion
It’s an epidemic with lots of names: burnout, depression, obesity, physical ailments of unknown origin, sexual acting out, divorce, substance abuse, loneliness and leaving the ministry. Furthermore, clergy suicides occur frequently. Research statistics vary but...
by Roger Olson | Oct 9, 2017 | Opinion
Over the years of my life in modern (or postmodern) American academics, I have several times read and heard that white men ought to “repent” of being white and male. I have long been a strong supporter of some liberation theologies. That is so much the...
by Shaun King | Oct 6, 2017 | Opinion
One of the growing concerns I have as a pastor attempting to lead and love in this current era is what seems to be a nation’s fading capacity to be shocked. Events and realities that would have left us aghast even one generation ago have tragically become...
