by Joe LaGuardia | Dec 8, 2014 | Opinion
Churches following the lectionary – a group of Scripture lessons determined by the Christian calendar – might find the Advent Scriptures this year to be odd. The selected texts focus not on the birth narratives of Jesus but on his second coming – what Jeremiah calls...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 6, 2014 | Opinion
It happened in Chatham County, North Carolina, less than an hour from my house. On Saturday, in various places from Bear Creek to Siler City, people looking for an early morning high loaded up on cocaine. Did they know that their ride from reality was also laced with...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 6, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Apparently, a kinder, gentler approach to addressing social issues has caused concern among some Southern Baptists who preferred the harsh rhetoric of former ethics hit man Richard Land to his younger and more winsome successor, Russell Moore. So Frank...
by Ircel Harrison | Dec 5, 2014 | Opinion
If I asked you to give me a word that describes your impression of the Apostle Paul, I doubt that “flexibility” would be one of those words. We generally tend to see Paul as a driven, committed follower of Christ who overcame all obstacles to proclaim the...
by James Gordon | Dec 5, 2014 | Opinion
More and more I am convinced that Christian witness today requires that followers of Jesus speak with linguistic integrity, resisting the lies, half-truths, redefinitions, propaganda and semantic erosion of contemporary political and social discourse. A number of key...
by Colin Harris | Dec 4, 2014 | Opinion
Advent involves not only God’s “coming to” (Latin: ad-venire) us in human form (incarnation) as part of God’s ongoing self-disclosure, but also our “coming to” in response to the gift of this season. This obvious play on words draws...
