by Terry Austin | Jun 6, 2014 | Opinion
I stumbled into Christian stewardship quite by accident. It was not on my list of interests or career choices, but following God is not like mapping out the shortest route on your GPS. As a child I learned to tithe from my father. It was never a legalistic type of...
by Roger Sutton | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion
A local council leader in the United Kingdom described the current austerity cuts hitting local government as “the greatest crisis affecting local communities since the war.” Many councils have already reduced their spending by up to 33 percent and are...
by Joe LaGuardia | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion
When Jesus told his disciples in the gospel of John that he was the “bread of life,” it meant that he would nourish people physically and spiritually. Jesus used food and fellowship to fill the empty stomachs of the poor around him, even those individuals...
by Colin Harris | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion
One year after the widely publicized images of brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, observers were beginning to suggest that this exposure of racism’s ugly and violent side was a turning point in the national...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 4, 2014 | Opinion
The French economist Thomas Piketty’s monumental “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is being widely acclaimed as a classic on par with Marx’s “Capital” and Keynes’ “General Theory.” Paul Krugman summarizes...
by Claude Mariottini | Jun 4, 2014 | Opinion
The murder of a member of a family, generally a woman, by another member of the family because of the perception that the person has brought shame to the family is known as “honor killing.” This practice has made international headlines twice in May. I...
