by Colin Sedgwick | Mar 2, 2015 | Opinion
I was sitting in a ministers’ fellowship of Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists, Salvation Army and Pentecostals. It must have been the best part of 40 years ago, but I remember it well. We always tried to be inclusive and welcoming, so we were pleased on this...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 28, 2015 | Opinion
The savage inhumanity of ISIS’s brutal ideologues continued to manifest itself this week as the organization kidnapped hundreds of Christians to be used, abused, and possibly beheaded in a sneering show of radical imbecility that grows from a perverted...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 28, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Whenever a hot-button issue arises within the larger society, as well as within church life, there are those who charge proponents of social change with abandoning the Bible and caving into culture. One does not have to be an indefatigable historian to...
by Bob Browning | Feb 27, 2015 | Opinion
I hear people refer to finding their voice occasionally. So how does a person find his or her voice? How do you know when you have something to say others need to hear? Perhaps Simon Peter, the leader of Jesus’ disciples, can help us answer these questions. The...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Feb 27, 2015 | Opinion
“Wages of Sin” read the headline of a report that the Church of England does not pay all of its employees a living wage. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby called it an embarrassing reality and noted that Canterbury “was moving very, very...
by Rick Love | Feb 27, 2015 | Opinion
Casual conversation became somber and serious at a recent dinner party I attended when a dinner guest asked, “What do you think followers of Jesus should do about ISIS?” After a moment of silence, one woman responded, “To be honest with you, I feel...
