by Matt Sapp | Apr 21, 2016 | Opinion
Every morning since Ash Wednesday, I’ve driven up to the church and looked at the cross sitting in the front yard. Some mornings, I’ve stopped to post the obligatory “draped cross” image to Instagram. Most mornings I’ve just glanced at...
by Thomas Kidd | Apr 20, 2016 | Opinion
When Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in 2012, many disappointed supporters – including a number of evangelicals – suggested that his defeat spoke to an American culture in decline. For politics to change, they say, culture must change. Glenn...
by Martin Accad | Apr 20, 2016 | Opinion
In the immediate as well as broader canonical contexts of the Quran, if it were not for the extensive exegetical tradition of Islam, verse 157 of SÅ«rat Ä€l-Ê¿ImrÄn (SÅ«ra 4) would be understood simply as another piece of polemic against the Jews who, in verse 155,...
by David Hull | Apr 19, 2016 | Opinion
For many years the primary way of measuring church size was to look at church membership. In Baptist churches, we began to track Sunday school attendance as a measuring stick. Membership numbers are not really helpful since Baptists are not very good about adjusting...
by Martin Accad | Apr 19, 2016 | Opinion
My father worked for the Bible Society in Lebanon for most of his life, serving as its general secretary for more than 25 years. Growing up, several of my summers were spent in the distribution of biblical literature and in organizing viewings of the Jesus Film in...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 18, 2016 | Opinion
In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,” Alice walked through the “wood of no-names,” where individuals didn’t remember their own names and had little awareness of qualities that set them apart from...
