by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Feb 26, 2014 | Opinion
Put “God” in a headline and we can’t help sighting it. Neil Steinberg, columnist in the Chicago Sun-Times did so: “‘Who’s God but us?’ Sister tells it like it is.” My wife, Harriet, the monitor of syntax and scorner of...
by Bill Wilson | Feb 26, 2014 | Opinion
I visited an impressive coffee shop in a southern city recently and noticed a sign above the counter that said simply: “We appreciate your addiction.” From the length of the line I waited in to get my cup of coffee, they weren’t kidding. The historic...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 25, 2014 | Opinion
“I unplug to __________.” If you unplugged for a day and got off the grid, what would you do? Read? Sleep? Get outside? Catch up over coffee? These are some of the planned activities when people unplug from sundown to sundown on March 7-8 – the National...
by Aaron Weaver | Feb 25, 2014 | Opinion
Baptist ethicist Robert Parham caught my attention with an editorial following the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting on July 20, 2012. His observation that few faith leaders were willing to address an underlying issue at the heart of this tragedy – America’s gun...
by Keith Herron | Feb 25, 2014 | Opinion
Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross speculated in her studies of terminally ill patients that the dying go through five distinct stages of grief preceding their deaths – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Her studies produced a book titled “On...
by Mark Tidsworth | Feb 24, 2014 | Opinion
One of the blessings of vocational ministry is the high degree of control clergy have over their schedules. If you are a minister, before you groan and push back, consider how much control you have. Because it is a calling and because clergy are on call most always...
