by David Hull | Apr 6, 2017 | Opinion
I like the story of the man from the Northeast who was in the South for a conference. He went to a diner for breakfast and asked for eggs, sausage and toast. As the server brought the order, the man noticed a little white puddle on his plate. “What’s...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Phineas Taylor Barnum, “P.T.,” for short, may have underestimated the birthrate of suckers. And among them are many who have been born twice. False information accepted and advanced as truth has been around for as long as humanity. However, the...
by Tony Peck | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion
It was just a few years ago that I encountered for myself the horror that is simply known to the world as Srebrenica. With the leader of the Baptists in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I travelled to Portacari just outside Srebrenica, now in the Republika Srpska, the...
by Mark Glanville | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion
The global refugee crisis is “not just a crisis in numbers; it is also a crisis of solidarity,” Ban Ki Moon, former United Nations secretary general, stated in the U.N.’s “Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2015” report. Jesus taught...
by Mark Glanville | Apr 4, 2017 | Opinion
We are living in an unprecedented period of global displacement – the highest level on record, according to the UNHCR (U.N. Refugee Agency) – with more than 65 million people around the world who have been forced from home. That’s a number almost...
by Drew Smith | Apr 4, 2017 | Opinion
A wild man preaching in the desert about repentance and calling people to be baptized is how we often image John the Baptist. We also visualize John baptizing Jesus – a significant starting point to Jesus’ ministry. But when we think of John, we probably...
