by Martin Marty | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinion
Sciences live by measurement, be it of size, temperature, numbers or pace. So do social scientists in the world of religion. David Gibson in Religion News Service and the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog featured the concept of...
by David Kerrigan | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinion
I live in South Oxfordshire in England where many of the villages are chocolate-box pretty, the land is fertile, the meandering Thames adds its own unique fingerprint and the air is clean. Well, except when our beloved power station has a malfunction! But if there is...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 12, 2012 | Opinion
Every now and then, someone comes up with a purported proof for something like Noah’s flood. “Answers in Genesis,” the Australian group behind the elaborate Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY, is still trying to build a full-scale replica of...
by Mark Tidsworth | Dec 12, 2012 | Opinion
Believe – Become – Belong These three words are prominently displayed on the attractive new sign, just below the church’s name. This sign, in front of the new church building, is located on a busy highway near where I live. When I saw it for the first time...
by Tyler Tankersley | Dec 12, 2012 | Opinion
Every year it seems that the Christmas season grows. This year, “Black Friday” sales invaded Thanksgiving Day and began at 8 p.m. Thursday evening. And we have all lamented Christmas trees being put up in stores as soon as August or July. With that in...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 12, 2012 | Opinion
I learned from Marcus Boon, in his article “Spring Comes to New Jersey” in the October 2009 issue of The Sun magazine, that the word eccentric comes from a Greek word that describes objects in space that don’t revolve around the earth. Ancient Greeks...
