Flower power

by | May 18, 2012 | Opinion

Flowers are amazing things. I took lots of biology courses, so I know that flowers play a variety of important roles in the life of plants, especially related to reproduction. Fragrance, color, shape, and size all work together to attract the right kind of pollinators...

Your U.S. Representative May Be a Heretic

by | May 18, 2012 | Opinion

Let’s call it what it is. It’s heresy. Now, to be sure, this charge applies only to confessing followers of Jesus Christ who are serving as representatives in the U.S. Congress. That is, the charge can’t apply to atheists and members of other...

Faith’s Slow Retreat into Irrelevance

by | May 18, 2012 | Opinion

In 1981, Langdon Gilkey, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, found himself embroiled in a church/state battle in Arkansas that would eventually be known as McLean v. the Arkansas Board of Education. The case was the result of a suit...

Interfaith Voices: Good Will is an Asset

by | May 18, 2012 | Opinion

Some business leaders get it. Some church leaders do not. Some civic leaders get it. Some elected officials do not. Progress is hard, if not impossible, without good will. Interfaith Montgomery, reflecting a wholesome diversity among faith communities, has become the...

What Does It Mean to Be Jesus’ Friend?

by | May 17, 2012 | Opinion

Anyone who has ever been in church is familiar with the hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” It was written by a son to comfort his mother whom he had left behind in Ireland when he came to the United States in the 1850s. According to the hymn, Jesus is...