by William Hooper | Apr 17, 2014 | Opinion
Why do we get knee-jerk reactions from some people of faith to anything dealing with science? It has been a few years since I took chemistry and physics at a university, so I don’t remember a whole lot of content. However, I do remember how science works....
by Keith Herron | Apr 17, 2014 | Opinion
The Thursday of Holy Week is called by a wide-ranging number of names according to one’s particular faith tradition, but most call it Maundy Thursday or more simply, Holy Thursday. It’s a day of bright wonder as we reflect upon Jesus’ simple actions...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 17, 2014 | Opinion
I rolled up my sleeves, put on plastic gloves and began removing food and trash from the container with a large recycling symbol on the front after the Wednesday evening meal and Bible study. The next week I re-emphasized that the recycling bin was only for plastic...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
There are some things in life that I don’t understand. I try not to be a curmudgeon about these things, but remain baffled by them. Why do perfectly healthy young college students line up at the elevator to go down two floors when class is over? Down! The...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Often evangelicals, including many Southern Baptists, have fought the idea of genuine religious liberty during the growing ethnic and religious diversification that has swept across the nation in recent decades. They’ve whined about being here first and...
by Matt Sapp | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
On April 9, 1945, after spending two years in a concentration camp, Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was executed by the Nazis. Bonhoeffer was imprisoned for being involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and couched his resistance to the Nazis as...
