Long before Adam …

Long before Adam …

It’s the time of the year — especially in an inordinately warm winter year — when folks start putting out fertilizer and pre-emergent herbicides to suppress the growth of weeds in their lawns, gardens, or fields. It turns out that weeds have been a...
Shelter of love

Shelter of love

By John D. Pierce Bill Davies and I have been friends since my student days in Rome, Ga., when he was a youthful Christian education minister at the First Baptist Church there. So last Thursday evening we had plenty to talk and laugh about over Mexican food — which I...

Spreading Faith: How Migration Changes Religion

Whatever might drive them to move, migrants carry their religions with them. Yet the religions they bring to their new lands do not remain unchanged. The fact of movement itself is a powerful dynamic force in religious change, and this is nowhere more obvious than in...

Why I Signed the World Relief Open Letter on Refugees

I signed in early February the World Relief open letter asking President Trump to reconsider his recent executive order impacting refugees. A reporter called asking me to share why I did so. She also asked my opinion on the apparent divide between the pulpit and the...