by Chuck Summers | Sep 8, 2016 | Opinion
Seasonal waterfalls in Hoosier National Forest in southern Indiana remind me about the importance of maintaining the flow of justice. A friend and I drove over to the forest recently to photograph the waterfalls at Hemlock Cliffs National Scenic Trail. Our area had...
by Barry Howard | Sep 7, 2016 | Opinion
I flew to North Carolina a few days ago to participate in a pastor peer group meeting. I arrived early at the airport, checked in and then began the security screening process. The Transportation Security Administration officer instructed us to place all personal...
by Colin Harris | Sep 6, 2016 | Opinion
Catastrophic losses bring profound changes to communities. From the family to the national level, these changes tend to become markers in the flow of history between the pre- and the post- of whatever the event was. Whether it was the death of a child a year ago, a...
by Neil Brighton | Sep 6, 2016 | Opinion
A small team is accompanying me to Iquitos, Peru, later in the year so I’ve been doing some thinking and preparation. One recurring question concerns the value of short-term mission trips. Not just my Peru trips, but also more generally. As a church, we have a...
by Colin Sedgwick | Sep 5, 2016 | Opinion
A Christian church is being built in a small village in Punjab, Pakistan, with the help of the congregation’s Muslim neighbors. According to a report from Barnabas Fund, the village is predominantly Muslim, as you would expect. But it is also home to eight...
by Bill Tillman | Sep 2, 2016 | Opinion
Labor Day – what a novel and paradoxical concept, at least the way many Americans think about it. The day, the first Monday in September, has ambiguous origins. The rationale for the day was that the American worker needed to be honored for the economic and...
