by Guy Sayles | Apr 11, 2016 | Opinion
The anger is palpable, isn’t it? The presidential primary campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have, in different ways, focused and channeled a lot of the anger people feel. Trump and Sanders diverge radically from each other in their fundamental...
by Ron Rolheiser | Apr 11, 2016 | Opinion
In the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed hovering between life and death. A young man, very much...
by Larry Eubanks | Apr 8, 2016 | Opinion
The topic of Christian persecution came up during a pastor’s roundtable luncheon I attended a few years ago. I was gathered with a dozen other pastors who met three to four times a year for fellowship, a nice meal in a private room at a nice restaurant and a...
by Dennis Bickers | Apr 8, 2016 | Opinion
What is the proper compensation for a bivocational minister? Churches who ask me this question are often concerned that they are not adequately compensating their bivocational minister but are not sure what would be considered fair. Others might be considering calling...
by Noel Erskine (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Apr 7, 2016 | Opinion
Though revered and claimed as an inspiration by people with a wide range of religious and political commitments, Martin Luther King Jr., as he often reminded audiences, was nurtured in the black church. King demanded justice for the powerless and advocated on behalf...
by Mark Tidsworth | Apr 7, 2016 | Opinion
I don’t hear it much anymore, but it still happens. While doing a church consultation on engaging their community, someone in the room will tell this story: “I remember back in 1968 when this church began. We went door to door in this community, canvassing...
