by Tony Peck | Jan 25, 2013 | Opinion
“Embracing diversity” seemed to be a main theme running through the European Baptist Federation’s (EBF) Youth and Children’s Workers’ Conference, which ended in Prague recently. I always enjoy attending this conference each year. We have...
by Martin Marty | Jan 25, 2013 | Opinion
The Chicago Tribune recently alerted readers to the release that day of an ambitious set of findings about the effects of divorce on children. Reporter Manya A. Brachear called the project “unprecedented.” I crossed the street to the site of the release,...
by Trevor Barton | Jan 25, 2013 | Opinion
I received a “galimoto” for Christmas. In case you didn’t know, a “galimoto” is a toy vehicle created out of sticks, cornstalks, wire or anything children can take into their hands and make into a thing with wheels. Mine is a bicycle made...
by Chuck Queen | Jan 24, 2013 | Opinion
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures invite us into the human struggle for truth. They reflect the journeys and struggles of faith communities. Therefore, we should expect to find in our Scriptures contradictions, paradoxes, conflicts and inconsistencies. When we struggle...
by Michael Helms | Jan 24, 2013 | Opinion
It’s not every day that an old home with all its contents is sold at auction. Most of the time, family members have made their way through the belongings of the deceased, picking the valuables clean like a cotton picker plucking cotton from a field and leaving...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 23, 2013 | Opinion
What? It’s finally gotten cold in our neck of the woods – relatively speaking, of course. After the warmest winter on record in 2012 and several 70 degree days this month, we’ve finally run into a five or six day stretch in which temperatures are...
