by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
It’s been dry in Israel for several years, a small reminder of periodic droughts mentioned in the Bible. That recently came to an end with a spate of heavy winter rains. Israel typically has seasonal rains, usually beginning with scattered showers in October,...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Recently my two daughters, two nieces and I visited the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, where we saw Webb Pierce’s 1962 Pontiac Bonneville convertible adorned with steer horns, six-shooter door handles, a saddle console and more than l50...
by David Wheeler | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
When I was a boy in Kentucky, a drive on a summer evening would load up the windshield and the grille of our car with the sticky remains of deceased insects. Every porchlight was surrounded from dusk to dawn with a living halo of moths and June bugs. Children staying...
by Mark Tidsworth | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
The statistics are overwhelming. Avoid them if you can. Recently, I was in an event where a person from the national office of a mainline denomination was telling their recent story. The decline in number of churches and in-church membership during the last 10 years...
by Helen Paynter | Feb 11, 2019 | Opinion
“Bad theology can make people kill each other.” I wrote these words in a blog post published just over a year ago. Nothing I have seen or read since then has made me change my mind. In fact, bad theology – and bad biblical interpretation – can cause people to do all...
by Brent McDougal | Feb 11, 2019 | Opinion
Nearly half of U.S. adults feel lonely. That was a key finding in a survey published in May 2018 and reported on by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Surveying 20,000 people with 20 questions, researchers calculated a “loneliness score” from 20 to 80. Those scoring 43...
