by Hugh Sinclair | Jul 31, 2015 | Opinion
Our fascination with microfinance began last century; the love affair in the mid-2000s. The United Nations declared 2005 as the year of microcredit. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize the following year. Little empirical evidence supporting...
by Colin Harris | Jul 30, 2015 | Opinion
As our current political theater continues its descent into the realm of the absurd, questions naturally arise about the health and well-being of that dimension of our collective life. Key players in a process that is designed to identify those best capable to provide...
by Bob Newell | Jul 30, 2015 | Opinion
Some call it a modern-day Greek tragedy; others refer to it as the new normal for the country of Greece. Because my wife, Janice, and I moved to Athens, Greece, in 2005 and lived there for more than nine years and have many friends affected by it, we call it the...
by Arthur Brown | Jul 29, 2015 | Opinion
There is no shortage of fear in this world, and of course no shortage of things to be fearful of. Given recent comments by a well-known U.S. evangelical Christian leader, Franklin Graham, concerning his views on Islam and Muslims – and how he feels his country...
by Jerrod Hugenot | Jul 29, 2015 | Opinion
Barbara Brown Taylor recounts in her book, “Leaving Church,” her time as a parish minister serving in rural Georgia. “In a big city they might have found homes in five markedly different parishes, but in a county with only one Episcopal church they...
by Larry Eubanks | Jul 28, 2015 | Opinion
The defining characteristic of the biblical prophets was not the ability to predict the future, especially not in the Nostradamus-type way that we tend to think of it in modern times. Neither was their role primarily that of acting as the social conscience for ancient...
