by Rupen Das | Dec 4, 2012 | Opinion
On Nov. 18, just as another round of bloodletting between the Israelis and Palestinians got under way, 12 members of the Dalu family – seven of them children – in the Al Nasser neighborhood of Gaza City were killed by an Israeli artillery strike. While the Israeli...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 3, 2012 | Opinion
Christmas can be the happiest time of the year, or the hardest. The season comes with so many cultural trappings, childhood memories, and family dynamics that it can be an emotional minefield. Some people love it, others dread it. Most of us, I suspect, fall somewhere...
by Bill Wilson | Dec 3, 2012 | Opinion
In an excellent sermon, New York City pastor Alan Sherouse suggested that a most appropriate stewardship metaphor for a New Testament church is that of a table. Sherouse specifically referred to the round tables that his church uses seven days a week for a variety of...
by Stephen Holmes | Dec 3, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the third column in a three-part series. Read part one here and part two here. Easter 1997, and I was at an academic conference on the theme “The Communication of God.” A Jewish philosopher was speaking to us about the promise...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 30, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce It’s time to pack our bags, and get ready to go. The destination is familiar; we go there every year. Grandma’s house? No, the larger and much grander experience of Christmas. But to arrive in good shape, fully alert and filled with...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 30, 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...
