4 Lessons After Paris’ Climate Change Conference

If, like most of us, you prefer your issues cut and dried, goodies and baddies, then climate change is just the kind of thing to avoid. For every opinion, you’ll find an opposite opinion; for every believer, in spite of scientific consensus that climate change...

How to be a safe and secure preacher

By John D. Pierce America’s deep and intense ideological divide is obvious from social media posts to coffee shop conversations to the relentless political season’s assault on the senses. But nowhere are these impassioned yet opposing perspectives more apparent and...

President Issues Needed Gun Orders; Tone Was Off

Bipartisan consensus is urgently needed to address the widespread gun-violence. But how do we even take a first step in an increasingly polarized political climate? President Obama pressed the issue when he announced Tuesday morning executive actions regarding gun...

When Your View’s Biblical; Others, Not So Much

There was a time when I found a rant satisfying. It was a cathartic putting right of the world, or at least a therapeutic binge of self-expression that, even if it didn’t persuade others, made me feel a lot better. If I were to revert to the rant as default...