by David Wheeler | Dec 6, 2019 | Opinion
This Sunday, we celebrate the Advent theme of peace. In the famous words from Isaiah, “They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain” (Isaiah 11:9). This is a precious promise to embrace in these days when actual shooting wars have displaced millions, and...
by Steven Bouma-Prediger | Dec 5, 2019 | Opinion
Most of us wonder about the kind of person we have become and the kind of person we aspire to be. Perhaps celebrating a new birth or lamenting the loss of an old friend, contemplating a job change or witnessing a wedding, reading an obituary or attending a funeral, we...
by Ken Sehested | Oct 21, 2019 | Opinion
Brazil is getting more attention in recent months, primarily because of the massive fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, most of which is within Brazil’s boundary but also stretches into eight neighboring countries. While such fires have been a regular occurrence...
by Christian McIvor | Oct 15, 2019 | Opinion
A Statement on Environmental Justice was adopted during the Alliance of Baptists’ annual gathering in Dayton, Ohio, in April 2018. The statement calls us, as individuals and as a community of faith, to: Preach, teach and live a theology of beloved communityRespond...
by Michael Shaw | Oct 3, 2019 | Opinion
Where have all the prophets gone? That question has been on my mind after someone recently brought a quote to my attention in the context of climate change: “The prophetic counter to denial rooted in the ideology of exceptionalism is the practice of grief that...
