by Mitch Randall | Mar 30, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
A 28-year-old assailant walked into The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, a private elementary school on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church. The assailant, Aubrey Hale, unloaded her weapons on unsuspecting children and school employees. During Hale’s...
by Amy Butler | Mar 30, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Someone asked me last week what I had given up for Lent this year. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that her question caught me off guard because I haven’t given anything up for Lent, and I’m her new pastor. I suppose I could easily compose an entire list of excuses for...
by Cally Chisholm | Mar 29, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Do you ever talk to God while your oven preheats? It is as good a time as any, especially if your oven takes a long time to reach 400-degrees Fahrenheit. This may surprise some people, but I wouldn’t consider myself incredibly religious. Sure, I hop in my car on...
by James Gordon | Mar 29, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
What are we to make of the contrast between the one who “was in very nature God” and the one who “became obedient to death – even death on a cross”? Why would “he who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” make himself nothing and take the form of a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 29, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Early this month, on the eve of Purim, the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced with some fanfare that an inscription from the time of the Persian king Darius I had been found at Lachish, once a major city in southern Israel. During the Persian period (c. 550–330...
by Ron Rolheiser | Mar 28, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote an article about a lifelong friend who died by suicide. In describing his friend and his descent into a suicidal illness, Brooks sheds some needed light on how we still have a long way to go in our understanding...
