by Michael Parnell | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
A slogan for a popular bathroom cleaner says, “We work hard so you don’t have to.” That applies to what I do as a movie reviewer. I go to movies so you don’t have to. “Mother!” is one of those movies. It’s weird, disturbing,...
by Beth Allison Barr | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
I recently stumbled across a fabulously ordinary story in my own hometown of a Baptist church with a long history of supporting female leadership. It helps counter the negative portrayal of female ministers espoused by some evangelicals – like those shared by...
by Molly T. Marshall | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
Among some Christians you will often hear the aphorism: “Everything happens for a reason.” Really? How in the wake of hurricanes, internally displaced persons, floods, earthquakes and shattered infrastructures does one maintain this? It seems to infer...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce The Christian community at Koinonia Farm in southwest Georgia could use a bell at their chapel. The chapel has been renovated and a bell tower was donated — but no bell. The demonstration plot for peace, people and pecans was founded by Clarence...
by Beth Allison Barr | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion
Wayne Grudem argued in a 2006 interview that female leaders in the church (especially pastors) are disobeying God’s Word and thus open to “the withdrawal of God’s hand of protection and blessing.” As Grudem explains, “A woman who serves...
by Colin Harris | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion
Education is more than information. The late Jean Hendricks, a wise dean in one of Mercer University’s academic units, reminded our teaching team of this frequently. She meant, of course, that while information is essential for living as an informed participant...
