by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 27, 2012 | Opinion
I recently had the chance to sit in on a day-long seminar at the fall meeting of the North Carolina Psychological Association. The topic should interest most anyone concerned with keeping families together in today’s electronic information age: it was...
by Mitch Carnell | Sep 27, 2012 | Opinion
I have always loved congregational singing. When I was a preschooler on Sunday mornings, the congregation often sang, “Bringing in the Sheaves.” I had no idea what sheaves were, so my young mind translated sheaves into something I knew: sheets. After all,...
by Bill Wilson | Sep 26, 2012 | Opinion
The headlines are relentless. I wince every time I hear of a minister violating sexual or moral boundaries. I listen sadly as clergy describe unrealistic demands placed upon them by their congregation. Over the years, I have seen the great harm inflicted on...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Sep 26, 2012 | Opinion
Stupidity breeds stupidity. That’s the only lesson one can draw from yet another exhibition of scurrilous anti-Islamic propaganda (in the U.S. and later in France), followed by mob hysteria and the shedding of innocent blood in Libya and Egypt. Who takes the...
by Martin Marty | Sep 26, 2012 | Opinion
Vying for space and time on the religion-and-media front this week — in competition with presidential campaigns, Muslim extremist riots and almost numberless other stirs – has been the attention given to a tiny piece of papyrus which includes the teeny words...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion
Last Friday, as all good fans of J.R.R. Tolkien should know by now, marked the 75th anniversary of the release of There and Back Again, better known as The Hobbit, in Great Britain. And Saturday (Sept. 22) was Bilbo Baggins’ birthday: the book’s main...
