by Colin Harris | Feb 10, 2015 | Opinion
Conversations among pilgrims along the faith journey can lead to interesting insights about the ebb and flow of things that matter. It isn’t unusual to hear a veteran traveler say, “I used to believe (fill in the blank), but now I don’t feel a need...
by Cory Labrecque (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Feb 10, 2015 | Opinion
When climate change protesters marched on Wall Street last September, their charge was to bring attention to a global urgency that requires a deep and abiding transformation of the way we think about, invest in and relate to the environment. Laying blame on the...
by Larry Eubanks | Feb 9, 2015 | Opinion
William Cumpiano is a Massachusetts luthier, which is a general term for a maker of stringed instruments. Someone who makes violins or dulcimers is a luthier. Cumpiano builds guitars and is the co-author of “Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology,”...
by Carra Greer | Feb 9, 2015 | Opinion
We leave the imagination stuff to children – imaginary friends and Peter Pan’s epic imaginary food fight come to mind. Certainly, higher thinkers and wise adults would have moved past imagination to knowledge. This is dangerous. Maybe our quest for knowledge is...
by Thomas Kidd | Feb 9, 2015 | Opinion
In the fading light of a cool autumn evening, 25-year-old evangelist George Whitefield ascended a platform on Boston Common on Oct. 12, 1740. Before him stood 20,000 people. If the crowd estimates were reasonably accurate, this was the largest assembly ever gathered...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 7, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Yesterday, when reporting on the Islamic State’s continuous barbarism, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer discussed claims that an American hostage had been killed in Jordanian airstrikes. The conversations were primarily, and appropriately, about the likelihood this...
