by Jon Kuhrt | Jul 21, 2015 | Opinion
Poverty has three faces: material, relational and personal (self-identity). Each aspect contributes to poverty and homelessness, as I discussed previously, requiring a holistic response to address the underlying causes. These range of issues display why homelessness...
by Jon Kuhrt | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
I had a job cleaning in central London in 1990, which involved being on a main street by 7 a.m. The extent of the rough sleeping – homeless people who slept or lived outside – was shocking. Three to four people slept under almost every doorway, and a few...
by Bruce P. Rittenhouse (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
American consumer spending growth has been unusually slow since the Great Recession of 2007-09. Does this signal the adoption of what two Washington Post reporters describe as a “newfound prudence” and a permanent change in consumer psychology? Two recent...
by Fayiah S. Tamba | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
Should we obey people rather than God? Who is the higher authority of our lives? Ephesians 6:1 has often been misapplied by many parents to justify negative instructions to children, and I’ve witnessed this for some time now in Liberia. These parents impose and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 20, 2015 | Opinion
After three adventurous but very tiring weeks digging with the Fourth Expedition to Lachish, and a hard day and a half of travel to South Africa, Susan and I were due a little R & R before heading to Durban for the Baptist World Congress, so we had planned to take...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 18, 2015 | Opinion
If you are ever traveling in Africa, and one of the options includes a stopover in Addis Ababa, seriously consider choosing another one. For all the romance and excitement of travel, there are also frustrations, inconveniences, and just plain hard work. If...
