by Terrell Carter | Nov 26, 2014 | Opinion
The grand jury decision related to the shooting death of Michael Brown has been officially released. Officer Darren Wilson has been acquitted of all charges in the case. After the decision was announced people responded in ways that many of us feared. The lasting...
by Colin Harris | Nov 25, 2014 | Opinion
It was hard not to notice the appeals to fear and uncertainty in our recent campaign season. The more urgent the final stretch of the contests became, the more emphatic were the ominous suggestions that a vote for the “other side” would bring one’s...
by Faliku S. Dukuly | Nov 25, 2014 | Opinion
Liberia is presently a weeping nation. As I listen carefully to the voices of the voiceless in our nation, I am disappointed and disheartened by the Ebola crisis, which began in early March. Fighting the unseen disease that is causing calamity in our society is...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 25, 2014 | Opinion
It took a 90-year-old man to breathe some real excitement into the typically staid meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion (SBL/AAR) going on in San Diego. That happens when the nonagenarian is former president Jimmy Carter....
by Roger Olson | Nov 24, 2014 | Opinion
Donald Kraybill’s book, “The Upside-Down Kingdom,” is a modern Christian classic of social ethics. Its basic thesis, well supported from Christian Scripture, is that the kingdom of God is a social order of reverse values – from popular, “common...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 23, 2014 | Opinion
Hearing 15 scholars read academic papers over the course of 9 1/2 hours — and then listening (or joining in) as their colleagues respond — can make for a happy day: especially when periodic breaks can be spent on the San Diego waterfront. On the first full...
