by Robert Parham | Sep 3, 2013 | Opinion
“Just War” is a time-honored, moral tool for critiquing government war-making arguments. Rooted in Christian tradition, “Just War” provides understandable moral language that extends beyond the bounds of Christianity. And while government...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 2, 2013 | Opinion
My cousin Rae Stribling died over the weekend, and one of God’s most unique people has made the transition from corporality to memory. Rae as a girl, along with my father (top) and my uncle Tom. Rae was my grandmother’s sister’s daughter and a...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 2, 2013 | Opinion
Offering a prophetic witness is risky – risky to see things accurately and to speak to them rightly. A prophet, Greg Mobley stated in a recent column, “sees through the veil of appearances to glimpse a different reality.” “Prophetic vision,” he...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 31, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce “Before we had Google, we had granddad,” Catherine Eubanks-Carter said she once told her son. Speaking at a memorial service for her father, Gary F. Eubanks, yesterday at First Baptist Church of Marietta, Ga., Catherine described him as...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 31, 2013 | Opinion
A brief hodgepodge of thoughts on this Labor Day weekend … Food: Homeless folk in Raleigh will be a bit less hungry this weekend. After getting a major earful from concerned citizens at a meeting on Wednesday, the City Council agreed to allow charity workers to...
by Chuck Warnock | Aug 30, 2013 | Opinion
I recently added a new subtitle to my blog: “Churches Building Peace Communities By Practicing Reconciliation.” While adjusting my blog’s title might seem irrelevant to anyone but me, by “unpacking” this phrase one element at a time, I...
