by James Gordon | Oct 12, 2012 | Opinion
I have a number of Muslim friends, with whom I have laughed, argued, shared food; to whom I have listened, spoken and whom I deeply respect, a feeling that is mutual. Earlier this year, I conducted the funeral of a close friend who was a spiritual ecumenist, a man of...
by Mark Tidsworth | Oct 11, 2012 | Opinion
“We need a pastor who wakes up in the morning thinking about advancing the mission of this church.”– Chair of a pastor search team “Were not our hearts burning within us?”– Emmaus Road disciples after a brush with Jesus “Whatever your...
by Bob Newell | Oct 11, 2012 | Opinion
In response to the crushing economic crisis in Greece, I have been working to improve my greatly underutilized capacity to empathize with my Greek and Albanian friends. As I have turned up the volume on my faulty hearing and labored to hone my otherwise distracted...
by Stephen Holmes | Oct 11, 2012 | Opinion
When it began, the worldwide web was like a newspaper or a book: there were pages other people had published that you could read if you wanted. You could even publish your own pages, with a bit of effort, but essentially someone wrote stuff for other people to read....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 10, 2012 | Opinion
Protestants in America made big news this week — by oficially becoming a minority. A major study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2007 showed that American Protestants, at 51.3 percent of the population, were “on the verge of becoming a...
by Bill Wilson | Oct 10, 2012 | Opinion
There is a consistent theme in the conversations I have with clergy and laity alike about what frustrates or challenges them most. Without a doubt, it is staff. Every pastor’s gathering in which we ask for issues that need attention inevitably leads to a...
