by Jim Somerville | Sep 22, 2017 | Opinion
I may have pushed too hard in my sermon last Sunday. For three weeks after white nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, I mentioned racism in my sermons and how we need to root it out of our hearts and out of our nation. I received an email from one...
by Blake Hart | Sep 22, 2017 | Opinion
We teach our children from a very young age not to be selfish. It’s one of those qualities we easily see as a negative. When one child is selfishly guarding a toy to themselves, we interject, “Now, remember. We have to be nice and share with our...
by Martin J. Hodson | Sep 21, 2017 | Opinion
Things have sped up on climate change in all sorts of ways in 2017. In January, I wrote a briefing titled “Donald Trump, the Environment and the Church” for the John Ray Initiative, where I serve as operations director. I have spent a lot of time this year...
by David Swartz | Sep 21, 2017 | Opinion
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said recently that Catholic priests only support undocumented immigrants because they need them to “fill the churches.” On the face of it, his comment seems dismissive, even cynical. The U.S. Conference of Catholic...
by Nick Lear | Sep 20, 2017 | Opinion
I grew up in an era when the threat of nuclear attack was real. The peace of the world existed in a tension that was known as MAD – mutually assured destruction. In other words, we would not blow up another country because we knew that they would blow us up in...
by Ircel Harrison | Sep 20, 2017 | Opinion
Early in the history of the Christian church, believers were divided into two groups – the clergy and the laity. Clergy were those called to a full-time Christian vocation. Laity were the men and women who pursued secular vocations and supported the ministry of...
