by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 21, 2013 | Opinion
Anyone who’s watched much television preaching or visited certain churches has certainly run across someone promoting the prosperity gospel, the notion that God wants to make us all rich so we can be an example of divine beneficence to others. It’s...
by Michael Ruffin | Aug 20, 2013 | Opinion
Archaeologists recently announced that they had made a significant find in the ruins of a church that had been built in 660 A.D. in present-day Turkey: a small stone coffin containing a wood fragment that in the past was venerated as coming from the cross of Jesus...
by Tony Peck | Aug 20, 2013 | Opinion
Like many others, I have been shocked and saddened by the loss of life in Cairo and elsewhere this past week as the Egyptian military has cracked down on the protesters supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and the ousted President Morsi. Some of the TV pictures have been...
by Robert Parham | Aug 20, 2013 | Opinion
Islamists have burned churches and attacked Christians in Egypt in recent days, alarming Christians worldwide. Buddhist hard-liners have targeted the minority religious communities of Christians and Muslims in Sri Lanka, alleging that they have engaged in efforts at...
by Jenny Flannagan | Aug 19, 2013 | Opinion
Over the past few months, I’ve been reading articles on the concept of “downward mobility.” I’m fascinated by the different perspectives because it’s a term my husband, Andy, and I have increasingly come to use to describe our own...
by Gary Farley | Aug 19, 2013 | Opinion
Five days before Christmas 2012, the first inmates arrived at the Aliceville Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) work camp. This is a new federal prison for women in rural west Alabama. The work camp is for trustee-type prisoners who do janitorial, lawn care and...
