by Jonathan Langley | Feb 24, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
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by Mitch Randall | Feb 23, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman recently checked himself into a hospital seeking treatment for clinical depression. The Democratic senator won a hard-fought election last year, even after suffering a stroke during the campaign. According to Fetterman and his...
by Christopher B. Harbin | Feb 23, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Places mentioned in the Gospels often enough are laden with greater significance than simply mapping a route. When Matthew tells us Jesus entered the wastelands east of the Jordan, it is more than his being in a solitary place. This is where the tribes had first...
by Ken Sehested | Feb 22, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
“Set your plow deeper” was our congregation’s theme for Lent some years ago. It was suggested by one of our members, a retired farmer named Marvin. In years past, Marvin noted, most farmers plowed at the same depth every year. “The bottom of the plow compacts the soil...
by Barry Howard | Feb 22, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The church is undergoing a huge paradigm shift. While methodologies and strategies have been changing since the followers of Jesus were first called Christians at Antioch, Phyllis Tickle and others have pointed out that approximately every 500 years the church...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
There is a clear and consistent answer to why atrocities against human lives continue to occur. Despite the loud cries of “Never again!” throughout the centuries, and in more recent days, they happen again and again. The taproot out which this continuing evil grows is...
