by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Aug 26, 2014 | Opinion
My mind has been dragging and my heart has lingered in this week and a half that I’ve been home from my recent trip to Kenya. When the faces of such precious people are fixated in your mind, you just stay put for a while. The joy washes over you and you...
by Colin Sedgwick | Aug 25, 2014 | Opinion
There’s something I like about group photos. You know the sort of thing: a class of children sitting with their teacher, freshly scrubbed and on their best behavior; a bunch of people attending a conference; a crowd at a wedding, all dressed up to the nines....
by Drew Smith | Aug 25, 2014 | Opinion
The narrative structure of Mark’s Gospel has fascinated me for years. Unlike Matthew and Luke, the two gospels most similar to Mark, Mark does not begin with Jesus’ birth narrative. Instead, Mark begins with Jesus’ baptism, and then follows Jesus as...
by Dennis Bickers | Aug 25, 2014 | Opinion
The suicide deaths of Robin Williams and last year that of Rick Warren’s son has triggered quite a discussion in many Christian circles about depression. Some have been highly critical of Christians who suffer from depression, while others have called for...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 24, 2014 | Opinion
She must have been somebody special, this woman who lived some 7,000 years ago, during what we have typically called the Middle Chalcolithic period (a fancy way of saying “during the Stone Age”). Her home was in a mudbrick village in a fertile area near...
by Terrell Carter | Aug 22, 2014 | Opinion
The city of Ferguson, Missouri, has been transformed over the past two weeks from an unknown sleepy town located in the northern portion of St. Louis into the symbolic embodiment of multiple racial, political and social struggles. The incident, and the subsequent...
