by Colin Harris | Dec 2, 2019 | Opinion
There has been no lack of comment and analysis in response to the rare, even unique experience of the U.S. House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry and open hearings. The interplay of competing narratives, the contrasts between the...
by Merianna Harrelson | Dec 2, 2019 | Opinion
We can’t help but be bombarded by the consumerism that veils our entrance into this Advent season of hope and waiting. If there is ever a time in our church calendar where U.S. culture and the gospel message reside in tension, this is that season. Christianity has...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 1, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce He coined the phrase, “Peace, like war, is waged.” He challenged Baptists and others to live out the gospel of justice and inclusion — when it challenged their cultural norms. He founded an independent publication (at great personal cost) in which...
by Ginger Hughes | Nov 30, 2019 | Opinion
By: Ginger Hughes I fear we’re making quite the spectacle of ourselves this holiday season. You see, my husband and I love white Christmas lights. We look forward to their simplicity and beauty each year. However, our children have much different tastes. They love...
by Mitch Randall | Nov 27, 2019 | Opinion
The divine right of kings asserts that the ruler of a nation derives authority not from the will of the governed but from God. While the concept is present in earlier writings, it emerged as a prominent theory of governance in 16th-century Europe when monarchs sought...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 27, 2019 | Opinion
Dad died Thanksgiving morning several years ago. To write “Dad died” unleashes a snarl of tangled emotions. Love, loss, wishful thinking, anger, “if onlys,” “why?,” longing, forever. I loved that man with wholehearted abandon until loving him was no longer safe. Even...
