Goodwill Baptists Applaud Election of Pope Francis

The election of Pope Francis was surely God-inspired. He is the right man in the fullness of time – a doctrinal conservative and a social progressive. Early news reports disclose a man of humor and humility. Upon his election, he joked with the cardinals about their...

Can Jews, Christians and Muslims Coexist?

Can Jews, Christians and Muslims coexist? Yes. Imagine a man who, as a child, lived next to a synagogue in the West Indies and attended a Dutch Reformed church. Imagine, further, the same man as a young adult who arrived in Liberia under the auspices of the New York...

Raising Your Voice to Help Those in Need

What does God expect of me? How does he want me to live? All of us struggle at times as we seek to live our faith, and the prophet Ezekiel offers a challenging answer to these questions. Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying...

Unleash your inner priest

Yes, friends, just in time to train up your children for Passover and other priestly days, it’s “Leviticus! The Game.” Available as a free iPhone app from the Apple store, “Leviticus! The Game” teaches rules about purity, kosher food, and...

How Mary’s One-Time Extravagance Benefitted You

Was it a spur-of-the-moment thing? Or something Mary had in mind for a long time? If it was impulsive, why did she have so much expensive nard-based perfume on hand? Was Mary collecting this perfume because she loved exquisite fragrances? Or was she a wise investor,...

What Do We Know About the New Pope?

I am neither a journalist, nor a prophet. But since Pope Francis comes from Argentina and I’m an Argentinean, it seems that I should have something to say. Jason Horowitz wrote in The Washington Post: “The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church broke...