by Colin Harris | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
Parallel images of barbaric atrocities committed by extremists and of health workers risking and giving their lives in the effort to control the Ebola pandemic raise the penetrating question of who we are and who we have become as a human family. On a lesser scale,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 10, 2014 | Opinion
You’ve seen the signs, if you’re of a certain age and have travelled the big roads and the back roads of the Southeast or Midwest: black roofs on red barns, mostly, emblazoned with “See Rock City.” I’ve read that a single man named Clark...
by Elijah Brown | Sep 10, 2014 | Opinion
One of the more celebrated churches in the book of Revelation is that of Philadelphia in modern-day Turkey. This community of believers was commended by Jesus as those who “kept my word and have not denied my name” and who will therefore be kept...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Friday morning’s breakfast was the same as usual — egg and cheese on a whole grain bagel and hazelnut coffee — but different. Sitting in Panera Bread in Chattanooga, I was contemplating the previous evening’s gathering of family and friends and the...
by Ronnie Brewer | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion
Bill Wilson recently asked me to reflect on my transition last summer from denominational work back to the pastorate, when I became the pastor of First Baptist Church of Bristol, Virginia. Particularly, I reflected on the experience of joining a church that is dealing...
by Robert Parham | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion
How should we deal with ISIS, an Islamic terrorist army who beheaded an American journalist, threatened Iraqi Christians with conversion or death, and slaughtered Middle Eastern Muslims? President Obama has promised to present his “game plan” later this...
