by Myles Werntz | Oct 20, 2020 | Feature-, Opinion
Voting is the most American religious ritual. Like most things religious, we do it infrequently, but with great fervor and passion when necessary. With every presidential election, we hear it is the most monumental one in our lifetimes until the next one, which allows...
by Myles Werntz | Jun 24, 2020 | Opinion
Two intertwining gifts are emerging in a North American church scene in which every major denomination is in decline. First, there is a renewed desire for roots, to evaluate histories and to see what it was about being Baptist or Presbyterian or Methodist that...
by Myles Werntz | Oct 22, 2019 | Opinion
In the world of Christian ethics, it is generally assumed that what proceeds by way of ethics has to be rooted in the Scriptures in some way, but what that means is as divided as the church is. For some, “biblical ethics” means not only that one’s ethic is a...
by Myles Werntz | Aug 28, 2018 | Opinion
Labor Day has, at some level, always felt a little unnecessary to me. For, unlike Independence Day or Memorial Day, when we wrestle with aspects of our country that might seem out of sight, “labor” is something we do all the time. We do not, in other words, need to be...
