by Colin Sedgwick | Jul 17, 2014 | Opinion
On a Saturday afternoon, I am on the top deck of a bus in northwest London when a young woman comes up the stairs and starts preaching loudly. The bus is full of people who are all minding their own business, hoping the bus will be able to crawl its way at least...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 17, 2014 | Opinion
Climate change is not inevitable. So says the United Nations, countering the pessimism found in previous studies. Their report is the product of a study seeking “to understand and show how individual countries can transition to a low carbon economy” in...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 16, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce My minister friends can relate to this scenario: Following a sermon, a listener tells the conveyor of the message just how wonderful and touching were the words they heard. The conversation lingers and then redirects. The early words of gratitude give...
by Lois Mitchell | Jul 16, 2014 | Opinion
Living in a climate of fiscal uncertainty—which would be a very nonchalant way of describing the current global economic reality—has produced a spirit of reckless fatalism. We may watch the ticker tape on our TV screen show rises and falls in stock prices with...
by Ayman Ibrahim | Jul 16, 2014 | Opinion
On the morning of June 30, various media channels reported that ISIS declared the Muslim “caliphate” stretching across Iraq and Syria. ISIS refers to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or Levant), a Sunni Muslim extremist and militant group, currently...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 15, 2014 | Opinion
On the last morning of a three-day tour of the “seven churches of Revelation,” we set out to visit Laodicea, Philadelphia, and Sardis – but not before a long stop at Hieropolis (Pamukkale), a large city that sat atop a wide shelf on the side of a mountain range, just...
