by Martin Brooks | Jun 15, 2016 | Opinion
The “Rust Belt” is a phrase that brings to mind abandoned buildings, crumbling infrastructures, demoralized and unemployed people. Those that remain complain about the declining quality of life, police protection and the schools their children attend. What...
by Phil Palmer | Jun 13, 2016 | Opinion
Most BBC stories covering the movement of people from North Africa across the Mediterranean to Europe, or on across Europe toward the United Kingdom, carry an explanation of terms. “The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to...
by Tony Peck | Jun 10, 2016 | Opinion
European Baptists were challenged to change their language about the coming of so many refugees to Europe. Rather than seeing ourselves as playing our part in meeting a “crisis,” we should see the presence of so many refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq...
by Bob Newell | Apr 6, 2016 | Opinion
My wife and I recently returned to Athens, Greece, to minister among Greeks and Albanians. The lives, fortunes and misfortunes of many there continue to matter to us, despite the reality that we no longer live among them. Their struggles remain current to us and our...
by Juan Aragon | Mar 28, 2016 | Opinion
Noemi was 16 years old when she left her home in Ejido Manacal in Chiapas, Mexico. The oldest of seven siblings, she saw how her mother and father, a Pentecostal pastor, struggled to make ends meet. Manacal is a coffee-producing area, but not everyone profits from the...
