by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
Last fall I mentioned the immigration case of Nazry (“Naz”) Mustakim, a native of Singapore who lived in the United States with proper documents as a Legal Permanent Resident for nearly 20 years before being taken into custody last March. Before his...
by Larry Greenfield | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
A dispute in recent issues of TheNewYorkReviewofBooks provokes an old but ever-new question: Is it possible for authentic followers of Jesus the Anointed of God to be conservatives, or must they by definition be liberals? The ongoing disagreement between Professor...
by Gary Furr | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one here. I’ve been thinking, at 57, about how disappointing the world, other people, the church, society, politicians, even myself, are. And yet, I hope. I still think things can be...
by James L. Evans | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
On April 9 nearly 70 years ago, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in a Nazi prison in Flossenberg, Germany. Known best for his book, “The Cost of Discipleship,” – a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount – Bonhoeffer’s real significance to the church...
by Barrett Owen | Feb 9, 2012 | Opinion
I’m finding myself in a liminal space, reflecting as I gear up for another semester of marriage, school, ministry, recruiting, traveling, speaking, learning, preaching and pastoring. And I’m noticing a trend – it’s difficult to live out of my...
by Lee Gordon | Feb 9, 2012 | Opinion
There was a criminal attack on the Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem. When school principal Nadia Kinani arrived early one morning, she found “Death to Arabs” spray-painted in huge letters across the walls of the school. Close by, at the large Greek...
