by Robert Parham | Mar 29, 2016 | Opinion
Babs Baugh reminds me that I’m too serious, that I need to lighten up. And of course, she is right. My seriousness does come with the territory. Immigration, Baptist-Muslim interfaith relations, poverty, incivility, climate change are all intensely serious...
by Thomas Kidd | Mar 29, 2016 | Opinion
How is there still massive ignorance of the Bible when it is more widely available than ever before? I reflected on this dilemma of mass Bible ownership versus declining Bible “engagement” at the end of my Weekly Standard review of John Fea’s...
by Leroy Seat | Mar 29, 2016 | Opinion
Many of the great 19th-century women leaders in the U.S. were against what they considered three great evils: slavery, discrimination against women (including no voting rights) and alcohol. The first two evils have largely been eradicated, but not the third. Jane...
by Juan Aragon | Mar 28, 2016 | Opinion
Noemi was 16 years old when she left her home in Ejido Manacal in Chiapas, Mexico. The oldest of seven siblings, she saw how her mother and father, a Pentecostal pastor, struggled to make ends meet. Manacal is a coffee-producing area, but not everyone profits from the...
by Mark Tidsworth | Mar 25, 2016 | Opinion
Christian churches have a grand opportunity in the United States from now through the year’s end. This presidential campaign is more raucous and polarizing than we’ve seen in some time. Christian disciples with very different political views find...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 24, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Much of the food my family consumes now had no presence or even awareness in my childhood home: quinoa, orzo, sushi, kale to name just a few. Words, nor foods, like couscous, arugula, chipotle, fennel, pesto, feta, balsamic, mascarpone and gorgonzola...
