by Mike Parnell | May 11, 2012 | Opinion
I saw “The Avengers” twice over the weekend. I have two sons, one in college and one at home. I went with one son on Friday and one son on Sunday. At the showing on Sunday, we sat in front of a boy about 9 years old. As the movie played out, this young fan...
by James L. Evans | May 11, 2012 | Opinion
When I was about 4, my grandfather took me fishing. He had a secret fishing hole that was a backwater off Murder Creek in East Brewton. Remind me to tell you the story sometime of how Murder Creek got its name. The pond was inaccessible by car. We had to park on the...
by Bill Wilson | May 10, 2012 | Opinion
There is a revolution taking place in the way traditional congregations hire, manage and compensate their staff. Some of it is healthy and overdue; some of it is painful and shortsighted. As traditional congregations entered the 21st century, they walked into a...
by Martin Marty | May 10, 2012 | Opinion
The class will please come to order. Our text today is “The Law of Cultural Dominance,” formulated by David Kaplan in “Cultural Evolution,” published 52 years ago, and noticed too little since. I find online that I quoted it in a scholarly...
by Ircel Harrison | May 10, 2012 | Opinion
Although some say that we live in a post-denominational age, there is something comfortable and reassuring about identifying not only with a particular denominational “tribe” but a specific “clan” of that tribe. This is true of those who call...
by John D. Pierce | May 9, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce A large portion of my life has been spent with conservative, churchgoing people. In fact, these are “my people” as we say. Blue-collar Baptist congregations are as familiar to me as hand-cranked ice cream and salted watermelon slices. I am...
