by Rick Love | May 27, 2014 | Opinion
The word “peace” conjures up different things to different people. I am a child of the 1960s, so my generation links peace with hippies, anti-Vietnam war protests and free love. Others think of beauty queens declaring their hope for world peace; I...
by Bob Newell | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
On Dec. 1, 1990, Phillippe Cozette, a French construction worker, reached a grimy hand through a tiny crack in a rock wall and grabbed the similarly dirty hand of Graham Fagg of Great Britain. That handshake, between a Frenchman and an Englishman, with its careful...
by Ircel Harrison | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
My grandfather adhered to the position that the pastor of a Baptist church should preach on Sunday and “have a real job” the rest of the week. He was proud of me when I became a minister, but I am not sure that he ever accommodated himself to the fact that...
by Larry Eubanks | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
An acquaintance of mine owned and operated a small finance company years ago. He loaned money to individuals who couldn’t get a loan from a bank because of various reasons–inconsistent employment, insufficient annual income, bad credit history and so on....
by John D. Pierce | May 24, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Vincent Harding, who established a Mennonite ministry of justice and reconciliation in Atlanta in the ’60s, and wrote speeches for Martin King Jr., and later a biography titled, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (1996, Orbis), died this week....
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 23, 2014 | Opinion
I don’t know Jamie Brown, but in a recent blog post that’s well worth reading, he nailed something that I’ve been thinking for a long time: much of today’s worship suffers from an entertainment mentality in which worship leaders are performers,...
