by Rupen Das | Oct 31, 2014 | Opinion
The Syrian conflict has now become a slow meat grinder with hundreds being killed every month while families and communities across Syria are being systematically destroyed. In the “fog of war,” it is very easy to miss the small signs of hope amid the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 30, 2014 | Opinion
I love trees, and not just the ones sporting the colorful leaves. As a boy, my favorite outdoor hangout was in a tall oak in our side yard. I once dared climb so high that I could peer through the top and see the water tower in town, three miles away. The adrenaline...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Oct 30, 2014 | Opinion
The epistle lesson from the lectionary last Sunday took us to 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8. It’s a passage that we don’t often hear preached in church or a book we often study in Bible classes, but it’s a passage that has a lot to say to us about the nature...
by Bill Wilson | Oct 29, 2014 | Opinion
One of the pressing concerns of 21st century individual and congregational spiritual life is the question of depth. To be blunt, there isn’t much. Study after study has revealed the sad truth that much of what we call faith and commitment is actually a thin...
by Terrell Carter | Oct 28, 2014 | Opinion
I seek to have my Christian faith inform my interactions with everyone, including those who experience mental illness. My faith teaches me that we are all equals, having been created in God’s image, and that God seeks to be in relationship with all of us....
by Jonathan Langley | Oct 27, 2014 | Opinion
One man changed the world of advertising forever – and in so doing created a monster. Advertising changed forever in the 1920s, and so did the world. It was described as it was happening by journalist Samuel Strauss in 1927, who wrote, “The American...
