by Leroy Seat | Apr 10, 2019 | Opinion
Not everything the Bible says is Christian. Let me explain. As a young pastor, every sermon I preached was based on a Bible passage, and most sermons cited several other verses from various parts of the Bible. After all, back then Billy Graham, the most famous...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 9, 2019 | Opinion
My most intense exposure to the topic of genocide occurred from 2014 to 2016, when I co-produced a documentary on the 1966 genocide in Nigeria, in which Igbo tribespeople in particular were targeted for killing and for expulsion from certain parts of the country....
by Roger Olson | Apr 9, 2019 | Opinion
A major question facing Christians wanting to influence secular-pagan (one or the other or both) societies that do not have any Christian or even theonomous (governed by God) ethos – especially in the public spaces where social policies are created and enforced – is...
by Eddy Ruble | Apr 8, 2019 | Opinion
Genocide. The word immediately conjures up horrific scenes of the darkest hours of human history. Do we, as the church, hold these same dark images in our minds when we hear the word genocide? The Holocaust was the most systematic genocide in history. Beginning with...
by Jesse Wheeler | Apr 8, 2019 | Opinion
On March 25, 2019, President Donald Trump unilaterally recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory in a deeply controversial move contravening decades of official U.S. policy and international consensus. Officially Syrian, the territory has been occupied by...
by Alan Rudnick | Apr 5, 2019 | Opinion
“Pastor, we have a problem.” As I turned around, I replied, “Yes?” to a church member. Exasperated, the church member declared, “You’re spending too much time with nonchurch people. You’re out there with them. You are here to be with us.” As I listened to the comment,...