by Steve Sumerel | Mar 17, 2014 | Opinion
Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong to the technological world we are becoming. I cannot boast that my phone is smarter than your phone, or that I have been befriended by more near strangers than you. I would win, however, any contest of whose eyes get more...
by David Kerrigan | Mar 17, 2014 | Opinion
A conference rarely reaches the heady heights of being a sensory experience but the third Christ at the Checkpoint conference, meeting in Bethlehem on March 10-14, has done so in full measure. Taking as its theme “Your Kingdom Come,” the aim has been to...
by Larry Greenfield | Mar 14, 2014 | Opinion
I’ve been a Baptist for all but 18 of the 870 months of my life. Those non-Baptist months were at the very beginning, ending when my parents abandoned the small Presbyterian church near our home and looked for the church with the best Christian education program...
by Javier Elizondo | Mar 14, 2014 | Opinion
Alfonso Cuarón broke the glass ceiling in Hollywood by being the first Mexican to win an Academy Award as best director for his work in “Gravity” this year. Emmanuel Lubeszky, another Mexican, also won an Academy Award for cinematography for the same...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 13, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Cousin Pearl would call my mother to express her high anxiety over “the way things are going.” Her alarm was not surprising; she was getting old and spending too much time watching daytime television. My mother would listen to her long lament, then...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 13, 2014 | Opinion
The vines have covered my roots. In a way. In Philadelphia for meetings of the Baptist World Alliance and North American Baptist Fellowship last week, I finally had an opportunity to go in search of my first American ancestor’s headstone. In November of 1682, at...
