by Jack Moline | May 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The author Cormac McCarthy wrote a book called The Road. It is absolutely exquisite while, at the same time, absolutely brutal. Read it at your own peril. In the course of the story, which I will not recount here, a father realizes the price of remembering his life...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
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by Mitch Randall | May 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I’ve written twice about gun violence in the last two months. After a 28-year-old assailant walked into a private elementary school on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, I called attention to certain citizens’ idolatry of the...
by Wendell Griffen | May 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
It seems that wherever “Great Commission” people have established a foothold in a society and advanced their notion of the religion of Jesus (notice that I said “their notion”), those societies have not become more loving and peaceful. Instead, other...
by Randall Balmer | May 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I recently completed three-plus years of off-and-on (mostly on) supply work at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Española, New Mexico. The end came rather suddenly; for a variety of reasons, we relocated on short notice, so what had been a 30-minute commute each way...
by Wendell Griffen | May 10, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
What is the “Great Commission”? And why is it controversial? Matthew Smaltz, a Roman Catholic religious studies professor at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, addressed these questions in a February 2019 article published by The Conversation. He shared three...
