by Larry Greenfield | Sep 13, 2013 | Opinion
The parable in Luke 15:8-10 has to be one of the shortest Jesus shared with his listeners. It’s the one about the woman who loses one of her 10 coins and scours her residence to find it. When the lost coin is found, she calls together her friends and neighbors...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 12, 2013 | Opinion
The current income disparity in the U.S. is enough to make most anyone despair — at least those outside the top ten percent. The rich have made out like bandits during the recovery from our most recent greed-induced “great recession,” while poor and...
by Sarah Stone | Sep 12, 2013 | Opinion
“Everywhere was dark. It was like laying down in the grave,” says Mona (names have been changed throughout to protect identities), a victim of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. “We thought it was the end of our lives and we prayed to God,...
by Joe LaGuardia | Sep 12, 2013 | Opinion
The extraordinary and history-making cold spell we experienced in Georgia several weeks ago reminded me of a time when one of my good friends posted on Facebook. The gist of the comment was that with all this cold weather, human-induced climate change is certain to be...
by Andrey Shirin | Sep 11, 2013 | Opinion
A prevailing myth today is that church attendance is declining because churches and seminaries are not practical enough. The truth is that church attendance is declining at a time when churches are more practical than ever, at least if we measure the level of...
by Jim Kelsey | Sep 11, 2013 | Opinion
Pachebel’s “Canon” is one of my favorite pieces of music. My wife, Debbie, and I used it as the prelude at our wedding, which, for me, gives it additional affective power. Early in my days at a church I pastored in Ohio, I shared this with my church...
