by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 13, 2012 | Opinion
They’re burying Josephine Hendrix today, and the world is a poorer place following her death this week, at the age of 79. Known to her many students as “Dr. Jo” and to her friends simply as “Jo,” she could as well have been called...
by Martin Marty | Jan 13, 2012 | Opinion
“Sightings” of religion in the academy, we are regularly told, are rare. “Secularism” is the villain. You wouldn’t know it if you attended programs or visited publishers’ displays at historians’ conventions, where, by all...
by Larry Greenfield | Jan 13, 2012 | Opinion
As the wise men headed back east, did they have any pangs of conscience about not being truthful with King Herod? They had struck a deal with him: After finding the newborn king and paying him his due, they would trek back to King Herod in Jerusalem and tell the ruler...
by James L. Evans | Jan 13, 2012 | Opinion
Here are some of the pitfalls of trying to write timely about religion every week. First, the daily news right now is completely dominated by Republican politics. This will last until midsummer when the Democrats join the fray, and then we will have nonstop partisan...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 12, 2012 | Opinion
My prayers are with a high school friend who is preparing for her mother’s funeral tomorrow. Such times are tough in so many ways. Her father died many years ago, which got me thinking about an interesting dynamic that seems to come from the death of one’s...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 12, 2012 | Opinion
I surely understand the opening lines of Edward Hirsch’s poem “Self Portrait”: I lived between my heart and my head, like a married couple who can’t get along … My head says: “I think.” My heart says, “I feel.” Head...
