by Trevor Barton | Jun 8, 2012 | Opinion
Washing dishes. This is how I remember Momadu. Washing dishes is a chore, you know. In the pre-dishwasher days in America, my mom put “wash the dishes” on her children’s list of things to do every day. We washed them, obediently though begrudgingly....
by Martin Marty | Jun 7, 2012 | Opinion
The scopes of my column, assigned to focus on “public religion,” often deal with religion in public affairs, particularly politics, economics and the like. There, one spots most media coverage of religion, but for many believers and onlookers the focus is different....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 6, 2012 | Opinion
(Written May 30 from Santiago de Cuba, with a 12-person mission team sponsored by Woodhaven Baptist Church in Apex, working through North Carolina Baptist Men’s partnership with the Eastern Baptist Convention of Cuba.) The sand crew celebrated success in moving...
by Anne Olson | Jun 6, 2012 | Opinion
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not...
by Robert Parham | Jun 6, 2012 | Opinion
When John Edwards said after his court victory last week, “I don’t think God’s through with me. I really believe he thinks there’s still some good things I can do,” what did he mean? Political pundits and columnists leaped to the...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 5, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce A pair of Eastern bluebirds is working on a second batch of offspring in the one-room cedar house I erected in our backyard earlier this spring. Like before, the brilliantly beautiful male bird is staking out his territory now. Three places have most of...
