by Roger Olson | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
I grew up in a church that was committed to restoring the “New Testament church” – as it was in the first century. This impulse is called “restorationism” – the belief that the church’s main task in every age is to restore the...
by Philip Jenkins | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
Judging by media coverage over the past few years, it would be easy to assume that the West is locked in a death struggle with radical Islam. Against that view, I want to make two arguments. Although the first is (or should be) strictly noncontroversial, the second...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
Genesis 1-2 reveals two important truths about humanity: We are created in the image of God, and we are to be caretakers of the earth. God cared for all things in creation, and humanity is given a similar role. We are to occupy the earth, to multiply our human race...
by Rick Love | Mar 17, 2015 | Opinion
Jesus’ teaching on peace may begin in our hearts and our homes, but it pushes us beyond our comfort zones and outside the walls of our churches to our neighbors and even our enemies. It overflows to our cities, states and nation. It encompasses global conflict...
by Daniel Trusiewicz | Mar 17, 2015 | Opinion
Christianity in Albania claims apostolic roots since the Bible mentions a visit of Titus to Dalmatia, the province on the territory of today’s Albania (2 Timothy 4:10). From the 15th century to the 19th century, under the rule of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Mar 16, 2015 | Opinion
“Open your Bibles to the book of the Prophet Amos…” That sounds like a command from a Bible class of old. Instead, it’s a response to a column by a favorite of ours, William Galston, from the Feb. 24 Wall Street Journal. Quoting Amos may seem arcane...
