by Robert Parham | Oct 1, 2014 | Opinion
Evangelicals and Pentecostals were missing from the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change prior to the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit. One or two “evangelical” signatories on the statement calling for divestment from fossil fuel stocks does not an...
by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 30, 2014 | Opinion
Have you ever noted how we spontaneously react to a perceived threat? Faced with a threat, our primal instincts tend to take over and we instantly freeze over and begin to shut all the doors opening to warmth, gentleness and empathy inside us. That’s a natural...
by Colin Harris | Sep 30, 2014 | Opinion
Most of us seem to live somewhere between Chicken Little’s “The sky is falling!” and Rabbi Gamaliel’s counsel to “wait and see” (Acts 5:33-39) on the theological and spiritual validity of the emerging Christian movement. Some issues...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 29, 2014 | Opinion
If life were to insist that I live full-time in a city and I could pick, Seattle would be at the top of my list. I wouldn’t say I’m in love with Seattle, but I am a bit infatuated with the bustling metropolis on the ridge above Puget Sound. I’d been...
by Bill Wilson | Sep 29, 2014 | Opinion
If the clock dictates, your life is consumed with the immediate and pressing issues of the moment. Clock life is focused on short-term results. If the clock rules, you find yourself racing from event to event in a mad scramble to meet expectations and deadlines. When...
by Ircel Harrison | Sep 29, 2014 | Opinion
In a recent faculty senate meeting at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, President Molly Marshall referred to Matthew 9:17 in her devotional: “Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the...
