by James L. Evans | Jun 29, 2012 | Opinion
How do we celebrate Independence Day as Christians? As Americans, it’s hard not to go to July 4th. But as Christians, isn’t our real independence day Easter? Isn’t that the day we find freedom from sin, guilt and failure? Here’s the dilemma for...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jun 28, 2012 | Opinion
For the last few weeks, I have been teaching a class at the IndonesianConsortiumforReligiousStudies as a Fulbright scholar on the Gadjah Mada University campus. The vast majority of my class is Muslim. The class I am leading is on the discipline of post-colonialism,...
by Deborah Brunt | Jun 28, 2012 | Opinion
Four generations ago, the white church in the Deep South launched the Confederacy with prayer and fasting. Faithful Christians cried out to God, certain their cause was righteous; their war, holy. As the Civil War progressed, Southerners were bombarded with...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 27, 2012 | Opinion
It’s a known fact that I’m a big fan of figs: few things are better straight from the tree, and this year my tree (really more of a bush) is loaded. Squash in the foreground, hungry holly to the rightThe tree is an offshoot from a turkey fig growing near...
by Leroy Seat | Jun 27, 2012 | Opinion
Two hundred years ago this month, the first foreign missionaries from the United States arrived in India. The famous “haystack prayer meeting” in 1806 led to the forming of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) four years later....
by Martin Accad | Jun 27, 2012 | Opinion
It was a Muslim friend of mine, a cleric, who once pointed out to me how artificial our practice of Christian-Muslim dialogue was. Our usual idea of interfaith dialogue is an officially organized session where one or more representatives of each religion presents...
