by Ferrell Foster | Aug 24, 2017 | Opinion
A community in Quebec has done an interesting thing. The people of Saint-Apollinaire voted to not allow a Muslim cemetery in town. They did so for a rather high-minded reason. As reported by Peter Stockland in The Globe & Mail, supporters of the ban are against...
by Bill Wilson | Aug 24, 2017 | Opinion
A minister asked me during a recent conversation what I thought were the major traps that most often snared ministers when they moved to a new congregation. Healthy churches and ministers pay attention to potential trouble spots and act in a proactive way to avoid...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 24, 2017 | Opinion
Lillian Daniel, in a recent sermon on Genesis, told of an Israeli program that required rabbis to study the Torah in groups and learn how to debate its meaning. Debate was not something to avoid, but significant because, as the theory goes, sacred Scripture is too...
by Roger Olson | Aug 23, 2017 | Opinion
I grew up in a form of Christian life that had women pastors, evangelists, church planters and, of course, missionaries. The only thing women could not do in church life was, apparently, serve as denominational executives. I don’t think there was any rule...
by Mitch Carnell | Aug 23, 2017 | Opinion
“The Invisible Women: Naming and Proclaiming the Forgotten Women in Scripture and Church Law” is a book of great consequence. Through Sister Sandra Makowski’s superb writing, research and scholarship, the poor treatment of women in the Bible,...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 22, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce, Nurturing Faith Journal LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Students at Simmons College in West Louisville will have access to a full Master of Divinity degree program beginning in the spring of 2018, thanks to collaboration between the historically black college and...
