by John D. Pierce | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce Recently I stopped by Enterprise South Nature Park, 2,800 acres of hiking and biking trails and picnic areas, next to the new Volkswagen plant that rolls out the hot-selling Passat. It is an easy find: just a couple of exits north of the big shopping...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
Do you have a mantra, a motto, or a favorite scripture verse that comes to mind as “words to live by”? As a nerdy freshman in high school, somewhere near the bottom of the social totem pole, I adopted the traditional Chinese saying “He who expects...
by Martin Marty | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
The public media evidently cannot get enough of “The Hell-Raiser,” as Rob Bell is called in the current New Yorker, or the harbinger of “A New American Christianity,” as announced in the subtitle of James K. Wellman Jr.’s...
by Ircel Harrison | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
As readers of my columns have observed, I believe that ministry entrepreneurs are serving a significant role in Kingdom work today and will continue to do so in the future. I have had the chance to meet such creative people and to learn from them. These gifted men...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
The Church of England is continuing to struggle in the backwash after a recent attempt to approve women bishops was sunk when it narrowly failed to win approval from the General Synod’s laity arm after the bishops, clergy and 42 of 44 dioceses had shown strong...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 4, 2012 | Opinion
Years ago, I attended a tedious and boring conference that I was delighted to see come to an end. I was ready to get back home, but, as bad luck would have it, my flight was delayed for a couple of hours as we waited for violent thunderstorms to subside. The airline...
