by Robert Parham | Aug 8, 2014 | Opinion
Laughter is missing in much of the Christian community, even though the biblical witness has encouraging words about laughter. Upon hearing that his aged wife would bear a son, Abram fell to the ground with laughter (Genesis 17:17). “God has given me laughter....
by John D. Pierce | Aug 7, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce A recent coffee-shop conversation led me to note that Jesus was not very socially acceptable. American Christians, in general, have domesticated the Son of God into someone less offensive than the real one — whose offenses included loving the unlovely,...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 7, 2014 | Opinion
July 28 marked the centennial anniversary of World War I’s beginning. For many, it was the war to end all wars; for powerful clergy that shaped religious and political life in America at the time, it was the very war by which God would usher in his kingdom. In...
by Drew Smith | Aug 7, 2014 | Opinion
The heart of Jesus’ message is the desire for peace. At one level, Jesus called people to follow him as a path to finding peace with God. Yet, at a more pragmatic level, Jesus called people to be at peace with one another. Indeed, in the Sermon on the Mount...
by Leroy Seat | Aug 6, 2014 | Opinion
Sadako Sasaki was born in January 1943 in Hiroshima, Japan. But 1943 was not a good time to be born in Japan, and Hiroshima was not a good place to be born. Sixty-nine years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Although...
by Nick Lear | Aug 6, 2014 | Opinion
It feels like we are being inundated with bad news in the form of numbers at the moment. Tragic events are measured in the number of deaths and injured people. The aggression of a country, organization or faction is measured by how many of their enemies they kill or...
