by John D. Pierce | Jun 14, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce A headline in today’s online Atlanta Journal-Constitution jumped off the digital page: “There’s still time to register your child for vacation Bible school.” It seemed more like a headline from The Catoosa County News in 1967 than a major...
by Robert Parham | Jun 14, 2016 | Opinion
The blame-game started soon after news broke about the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Blame Obama. Blame guns. Blame gun-rights advocates for blocking gun-control legislation. Blame evangelicals for opposing gay-rights legislation. Blame Muslims....
by Martin Accad | Jun 14, 2016 | Opinion
The month of Ramadan has begun. “Ramadan” is the name of the current month, the ninth in the Muslim lunar calendar, which has come to symbolize the 29- to 30-day Muslim fast, one of Islam’s five pillars. Social media has been filled with...
by Phil Palmer | Jun 13, 2016 | Opinion
Most BBC stories covering the movement of people from North Africa across the Mediterranean to Europe, or on across Europe toward the United Kingdom, carry an explanation of terms. “The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2016 | Opinion
Among the Ten Commandments, one begins with the word “remember”: “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day” (Exodus 20:8). It reminds us to recall something we already know. There are commandments of mercy written into our very DNA. We already...
by Tony Peck | Jun 10, 2016 | Opinion
European Baptists were challenged to change their language about the coming of so many refugees to Europe. Rather than seeing ourselves as playing our part in meeting a “crisis,” we should see the presence of so many refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq...
