by Juan Aragon | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
God not only shows compassion and mercy toward foreigners in the Bible, but also uses people in their condition as immigrants to fulfill his divine purposes in the world. God’s own people came into being as a result of a migrant’s obedience to God’s...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
Television commercials offer cultural insight, with their content and presentation methods serving as a tool for social analysis. On a recent evening, my wife and I were watching a sit-com via a network’s streaming option, and I noticed that the same ads were...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
“Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation” is the subtitle of the book, “America’s Pastor,” an acclaimed sort-of-biography by acclaim-worthy Duke University historian Grant Wacker. Wacker discussed recently his book at the Cushwa Center...
by Arthur Brown | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
Many young people from the region of Lebanon joining ISIS come from impoverished and desperate circumstances. They are uneducated and have suffered under local and regional security apparatuses, especially those of the Syrian regime during its occupation of Lebanon....
by Elijah Brown | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
Sin festers in the darkness. The same is often true in the politics of oppression. Genocide, a term first used in 1944 to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group, breeds in the shadows. Torture, rape and whole scale...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 20, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce It’s no secret that evangelical Christians have driven the recent so-called “religious freedom” legislative efforts in several states. These proponents — and the legislators who carry their water — assure us, however, that legal discrimination is not...
