by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 25, 2016 | Opinion
I was blessed to grow up in a very sheltered and safe environment. My childhood was lived inside of a virtual cocoon. In the remote, rural, first-generation, immigrant community I grew up in, we all knew each other, all went to the same church, all belonged to the...
by Robert Parham | Oct 25, 2016 | Opinion
A chilling five-minute Pentagon video warns of the breakdown – the collapse, the anarchy – by 2030 in mega-cities. It’s a dystopian future, one that is the opposite end from a utopian future. The film is being shown at the cutting-edge educational...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 24, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce After more than 20 years of publishing my opinion I’ve learned to not take the praise nor the pushback too seriously — realizing that only weak writing receives one exclusively or neither. Long ago I embraced the guiding principle that one of life’s...
by Beth Allison Barr | Oct 24, 2016 | Opinion
I will join my kids this week for our annual pumpkin carving in preparation for Halloween. According to a LifeWay poll, however, I am among a slight minority (49 percent) of evangelical Christians who participate fully in Halloween activities. Fifty-one percent of...
by Chris Smith | Oct 24, 2016 | Opinion
Not many days hence, the election season of 2016 will be in the history books. Words spoken, however, throughout the course of one of the most contentious presidential races in modern times will linger. Front and center have been the remarks made about women. For...
by Michael Parnell | Oct 21, 2016 | Opinion
It is rare for a mainstream Hollywood movie to take a positive view of the Bible. “The Birth of a Nation” looks at the Bible from a clear-eyed point of view. It is so clear-eyed that it is easy to see the Bible as one of the characters in the movie....
