by Sara Powell | Feb 12, 2014 | Opinion
The sound of clanging jail or prison doors is jarring for me. I am slightly claustrophobic, and the rare occasions when I have gone behind bars were challenging. I was there to do a handbell program with the choir I was directing. Even though I knew that at the end of...
by Roger Olson | Feb 12, 2014 | Opinion
I have a recording of two well-known leaders of the new Calvinism who promote themselves as mainstream evangelicals. They are answering questions from an audience. The recording does not include where or when this took place, but it seems to be at a Christian college...
by Rick Love | Feb 12, 2014 | Opinion
I was standing in line at the airport in Thailand on my way to Nepal when an American woman next to me asked my purpose for going. “I’m attending an important peacemaking gathering called the Interfaith Leaders Network, where we’ll be meeting with...
by Roger Olson | Feb 11, 2014 | Opinion
According to a recent article in The New York Times, I am the leading opponent of Calvinism – or the new Calvinism – in America today. I don’t know where the writer, Mark Oppenheimer, got that idea. Certainly not from me. Someone else must have said that to him....
by Mike Massar | Feb 11, 2014 | Opinion
I attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts several years ago, and the professor of my screenplay-writing class took pains to warn me about it ahead of time. Knowing that I was a minister attending the course to study the comparisons...
by Bill Wilson | Feb 10, 2014 | Opinion
You’ve probably been helped by a rumble strip – the series of grooved cuts in the pavement that rattles your car when you drift off the highway. The roar of the rumble strip is intended to jolt you awake or break through your inattention to driving and warn you...
