by Michael Ruffin | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion
I’m writing these words on my 54th birthday, and I’m in a reflective mood. I’m thinking about what I have learned in my five and a half decades of living. Here’s a list, in no particular order: Baseball is still the greatest sport in the world,...
by Jonathan Edwards | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion
Prayer always turns our thinking upside down. Mary’s song, the Magnificat, is the supreme example of this. When God is at work he is never merely in the business of “adding his blessing” to what we have decided to do. He wants to turn our unjust...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion
One of the most common “talking points” in political speeches, media commentary and “coffee shop” conversations during election season is about “small government” versus “big government.” We are told that conservatives...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 24, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce A couple of fellows, one helping his apparent wife guide the buggy, crossed paths in the grocery store aisle just ahead of me on Saturday. They obviously once belonged to the same earthly expression of the Body of Christ. “How ya doing?”...
by Colin Harris | Sep 24, 2012 | Opinion
With apologies to Rabbi Harold S. Kushner and to the title of his popular and helpful book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” I found this transposition helpful in reflecting on one of the troubling features of our current political climate. Perhaps...
by Martin Accad | Sep 24, 2012 | Opinion
The movie trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” which was considered by millions to be offensive to Islam and to its prophet Muhammad, is in its second week of controversy. Embassies have been burnt down, people have been killed, flags of Western nations...
