by Colin Harris | Aug 20, 2019 | Opinion
Is it possible to pay attention to the give and take of our public life and not be vulnerable to a kind of hopelessness that sees no clear way out of the mire of dysfunction and hostility that we find ourselves in? Daily reminders of the breakdown of community and its...
by Paul Baxley | Aug 20, 2019 | Opinion
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved persons in what was to become the United States of America. In 1619, about 20 Africans arrived on the Virginia coast at the end of a grueling, dehumanizing trans-Atlantic voyage. Unlike so many...
by Stephanie Swanson | Aug 19, 2019 | Opinion
Our worship service two Sundays ago focused on violence against women as well as men, transgender, genderqueer and gender nonconforming persons. This summer, we’ve been exploring uncommon Old Testament texts. Our subject two weeks ago was the story of Hosea and Gomer,...
by Elizabeth-Anne Nordgren Lovell | Aug 16, 2019 | Opinion
I want you to put yourself in my shoes for a moment. You just turned 25 a month ago. You have blonde highlights that you like to say are “natural in the summer.” You are in your third year at Central Seminary in the Women’s Leadership Initiative. You are the youngest...
by Michael Parnell | Aug 16, 2019 | Opinion
This story begins in July 2014. I was attending my second Comic-Con and went to a panel on the book, “God Is Disappointed in You.” The writer, Mark Russell, held the panel to give attendees an understanding of the book and why he wrote it. The book is a synopsis of...
by Ed Sunday-Winters | Aug 16, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on July 2, 2010. At the time of publication, Sunday-Winters was senior pastor of Ball Camp Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. I would not hazard a guess as to how many preachers in these United States will refer this...
