by John D. Pierce | Jan 20, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Including the “Nurturing Faith Experience: Yellowstone/Grand Tetons” in your winter dreaming and planning could lead to a memorable summer. This unique travel opportunity, July 9-16, will be comfortable and casual, yet well planned and simply...
by Robert Parham | Jan 20, 2016 | Opinion
Thirteen days (at press time) until the Iowa caucuses when the question everyone is asking in coffeehouses, churches and civic clubs will be answered: Who will win Iowa? Embedded in the question for Christians is: What will it mean for the future of American...
by Renee Embree | Jan 20, 2016 | Opinion
The church of today looks different than 100 years ago – or it should. If it doesn’t, you’ll have a really hard time being effective in today’s culture. The church 10 years from now will look different than today. It’s the message of the...
by Paul S. Fiddes | Jan 20, 2016 | Opinion
More than 400 years ago, a company of Christian believers met in a village in Lincolnshire and made a covenant together. They were facing persecution, imprisonment and even the prospect of death because they wanted to worship God freely in the way they believed God...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 19, 2016 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce It is time, way past time, to call out “American Evangelicalism” for what it is: a political movement that simply baptizes hard-right, secular political ideology in some religious varnish. Hence, my intentional identification of this movement sans...
by Chuck Summers | Jan 19, 2016 | Opinion
Two of my favorite local natural areas to take photographs have been great locations for bird photography the past two winters. I visited both a few days ago. One area is a wildlife management area and there I found thousands of snow and speckled geese. It was good to...