by Margot Hodson | Feb 17, 2016 | Opinion
Oxfam International announced in early January that the richest 62 people in the world own as much as half the entire population on the planet. Two days later, the Met Office, NASA and NOAA jointly confirmed that 2015 was the warmest year on record – and nine of...
by Robert Parham | Feb 16, 2016 | Opinion
Republican Party presidential candidates have demolished the wall of civility. Let’s review what happened at the Republican debate in Greenville, South Carolina, home of a historic Baptist university, Furman; a very conservative university, Bob Jones; and a...
by Michael Shaw | Feb 15, 2016 | Opinion
I arrived at university 25 years ago as a young, fresh, undergraduate who thought the best way to witness to Jesus was to make him cool by being cool myself. I am not sure how I thought this tactic would work, as I was (and still am) a cricket-loving folkie, with a...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 13, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce A college introductory course in sociology of religion was very mind opening for me. It helped me to see how belief systems and institutional religious practices are shaped by cultural contexts. Factors other than the movement of God’s Spirit are at...
by Greg DeLoach | Feb 12, 2016 | Opinion
Have you ever seen a jogger smile? There is a park alongside the river that is a convenient place for me to stop on the way home from work. While traffic hums by, there are trails winding through patches of woods, green space and the river itself that make it ideal...
by Joe LaGuardia | Feb 12, 2016 | Opinion
Lent began this week in the life of the church. It is a time of preparation and penitence, a time for deep reflection in the depth of winter’s cold. Although it is not a common practice in many Baptist churches, Lent can still hold powerful inspiration for a...
