by Trevor Barton | Mar 8, 2012 | Opinion
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” I was sitting outside on the playground bench wiping the tears of a child when this proverb came to mind. It isn’t true, of course. Nancy was a second-grader going through an...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 7, 2012 | Opinion
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is currently featuring a display of a project Thomas Jefferson undertook during the latter years of his life: it’s called “Jefferson’s Bible.” Being in Falls Church, Va. for a Baptist...
by Martin Marty | Mar 7, 2012 | Opinion
The weekend just past found some of the oldest things in Western religion to be the subject of newest concern and debate. One instance: a book of the Christian Bible, the Apocalypse or Revelation of St. John, which is the main review in The New Yorker and the main...
by Ircel Harrison | Mar 7, 2012 | Opinion
In a post on EthicsDaily.com, pastor Guy Sayles wrote, “For many years now, I’ve had a growing conviction that the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner was right to have claimed: ‘The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 7, 2012 | Opinion
Higher education in the United States is radically being changed to the detriment of humanity. As we teeter toward the abyss of a new dark age, politicians like former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum take great pride in leading the way toward a phony theology of unscientific...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 6, 2012 | Opinion
Despite the adoption of coffee bars, PowerPoint presentations and full-stage lighting, churches are seldom on the cutting edge when it comes to addressing demographic trends. Here are six dramatic trends that are not being addressed adequately by local churches,...
