by Garrett Vickrey | Apr 23, 2014 | Opinion
John Hagee announced recently to his San Antonio congregation and worldwide audience that there will be a world-shaking event sometime between this April and October 2015. Yes, that’s correct. He is predicting that sometime within the next year and a half a...
by Bob Newell | Apr 23, 2014 | Opinion
On Sunday, Sept. 3, 1967, I had recently moved into a graduate student apartment and was about to embark on an academic journey, which would lead to my first master’s degree. My personal life was happily consumed with the delightful challenge of adjusting to the...
by Elie Haddad | Apr 23, 2014 | Opinion
A Turkish theologian and a friend of mine describes the theologies that frequently govern the ministry of churches serving in a majority non-Christian context like ours at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) in Beirut, Lebanon. The first is a theology of retreat,...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Apr 22, 2014 | Opinion
India, the world’s largest democracy, is currently involved in a general election process that will take many weeks to execute. Cynics have often raised the question of what democracy can mean in a country where as much as a quarter of the population cannot read...
by Juan Aragon | Apr 22, 2014 | Opinion
The gospels include stories of Jesus sharing the good news of God’s kingdom with people from other cultures. In John 4, we read the well-known encounter and life-changing conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. This is a...
by Sarah Stone | Apr 21, 2014 | Opinion
I’m driving through Kolkata, West Bengal, in a yellow bus. Motorbikes, three-wheeled auto rickshaws, pedestrians, taxis and cars weave in and out of each other and us. Everyone hoots, it’s noisy – to an outsider, chaotic – but it seems to work. There were...
