by Merianna Harrelson | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
I was nervous. It was Saturday morning, and the sermon I had written and prepared felt unfinished and just wasn’t sitting right. I don’t like entering into the weekend with that kind of feeling, but after years of preaching every Sunday, I knew this meant I was...
by Mark Tidsworth | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
Not money, sex or fame. But what to say and how much to say and how directly – or not – to say it. That’s the moral struggle pastors face each week. It’s obvious our culture is at war with itself right about now. Pick an issue, any issue, and you’ll find groups of...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
The communities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, were attacked by domestic terrorism last weekend. Family and friends were enjoying a wonderful weekend when their American dream was destroyed by two gunmen filled with rage, anger and hate. When the bullets fell...
by Jonathan Langley | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: the following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. “I’m not a fan of Gandhi,” an Indian academic visiting the United Kingdom from Bangalore told me recently. “And I think that the complicity between colonial...
by Terry Smith | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: the following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. In his book, “Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams,” Benjamin Myers tells a fascinating story. A Scottish theologian, Elisabeth Templeton, asked a...
by Marv Knox | Aug 7, 2019 | Opinion
Gunshots that slaughtered at least 22 people in El Paso, Texas, last Saturday echoed around the world. They particularly reverberated in the hearts of residents of the American Southwest. The murderer (Let’s refuse to placate the perversion of mass murderers by...
