by Dennis Bickers | Oct 17, 2014 | Opinion
Leaders from three churches shared how God was using them to impact their communities at the regional biennial meeting of American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky. Two of the churches were smaller. One speaker was a bivocational pastor whose church had 24...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 16, 2014 | Opinion
There’s nothing original about saying that life is a journey, not a destination. A quote to that effect is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but at least one “Quote Investigator” has been unable to find it in Emerson’s writings. The...
by Colin Harris | Oct 16, 2014 | Opinion
A recent study series at church on John’s letters in the New Testament brought the reminder that they were most likely written in response to an interpretation of the gospel that came to be identified with Gnostic thought. This dualistic perspective reflected...
by Elijah Brown | Oct 16, 2014 | Opinion
Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized Yousafzai and Satyarthi “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and...
by Hugh Sinclair | Oct 15, 2014 | Opinion
A fascinating BBC news story emerged recently. A controversial payday lender called Wonga came to a voluntary settlement with the United Kingdom regulator after admitting it had been lending recklessly, at high interest rates, to people otherwise excluded from the...
by Thomas Kidd | Oct 15, 2014 | Opinion
Brian Palmer at Slate muses about the work of medical missionaries, like Dr. Kent Brantly, who contracted Ebola in Liberia: “It’s great that these people are doing God’s work, but do they have to talk about him so much?” I’m almost...
