by Vinoth Ramachandra | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion
Why do men like President Assad of Syria prefer to rule over rubble than surrender power? Arrogance in politics is compounded of ignorance, willful blindness and fantasies of invincibility. And when entire societies prostrate themselves before such arrogant rulers,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 11, 2013 | Opinion
Pope Benedict XVI announced today that he plans to step down at the end of the month — the first pope in 600 years to resign voluntarily rather than clinging to power and dying in office. Benedict has not been my favorite pope: his strict orthodoxy and...
by Jesse Wheeler | Feb 11, 2013 | Opinion
Beirut is mesmerizing and Lebanon is simply stunning. Nevertheless, even a brief analysis of the architectural subtext of downtown Beirut reveals how tragically imperative is the need for rectifying the contemporary state of interfaith or, more specifically,...
by Martha Beahm | Feb 11, 2013 | Opinion
Over the years, I have been a pastor in churches, a chaplain in hospital systems and an interim director for a nonprofit counseling center. One thing I have learned to depend on is that change will happen, if it isn’t already occurring. This is a constant we...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 9, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce Often political/theological alarmist groups will send their press releases and loud-but-weak commentaries to me. Removing these from my email inbox is a daily task. It is understandable that such groups would wrongly think I want to receive such...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 8, 2013 | Opinion
I have probably taken pictures of them, just children, young girls holding neon-colored signs like “God hates fags.” They couldn’t have been old enough to understand what the sign meant, but the indoctrination imposed upon Fred Phielps’...
