by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 2, 2012 | Opinion
Sunday morning early, at the Eastern Baptist Convention Senior Center in the village of La Caoba, near Santiago, Cuba. I’m sitting in one of nine aluminum rocking chairs that line a courtyard...
by Ircel Harrison | Jun 1, 2012 | Opinion
I received my first seminary degree 42 years ago this month. There is much about that experience that I still treasure. I studied under some excellent professors, made a number of friends that I encountered occasionally in my subsequent years of ministry, acquired...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 1, 2012 | Opinion
I’ve reached a tipping point. Up until just a few years ago, I primarily went to funerals for friends, colleagues and relatives who were in the generation ahead of me. Oh sure, there was the occasional early death of a contemporary resulting from an accident or...
by James L. Evans | Jun 1, 2012 | Opinion
I love to tease my classically trained minister of music that if he does my memorial service, I want the Beatles song “Let It Be” to be used as the central anthem. I also regularly aggravate him by suggesting that the same song should be in our hymnal....
by Martin Marty | May 31, 2012 | Opinion
My column does not conventionally review books, but one book has been on my desk for months as a prompt for something on which I wanted to comment. This week, fortuitously, friend Kevin Christiano of Notre Dame, knowing of my interest in the subject, sent a copy of a...
by Sara Powell | May 31, 2012 | Opinion
My husband went to one of our favorite barbecue places and picked up supper for us. He came home with a sampler platter containing ribs, pulled pork, chicken, slaw, Brunswick stew, bread, chips and some extra ribs. We dug in, ate up and licked our fingers. Good eating...
