by Jack Moline | Aug 29, 2022 | Opinion
There are all sorts of friendly rivalries between the wisdom of Islam and Judaism. Arabic and Hebrew, the native languages of each tradition, have at least as much in common as French and Spanish. But there is no sacred literature that originated in the romance...
by Alyssa Aldape | Aug 26, 2022 | Opinion
I attended seminary in the hopes of reconnecting to a faith that began to crumble around me. My Christianity informed by a historically white church and denomination did not fit quite right anymore. The rigid teachings began to crack under the pressure of curiosity,...
by Barry Howard | Aug 26, 2022 | Opinion
I unexpectedly found myself on several rural backroads during a recent road trip. My GPS had rerouted me to avoid an accident on the interstate, so I took advantage of the opportunity to look for locally owned restaurants and to observe church signs, a habit which is...
by Trevor Barton | Aug 26, 2022 | Opinion
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by Michael Parnell | Aug 25, 2022 | Opinion
We have left the time in which our culture and its people have any connectivity to the spiritual. That’s an assertion Andrew Root makes in his book, The Pastor in the Secular Age. He says we have moved toward being a people that have been disenchanted. The problem of...
by Colin Harris | Aug 24, 2022 | Opinion
Circumstances have a way of bringing into everyday conversation terms and concepts that become frequent in their use. Current attention has brought a term like “unprecedented” into our reflections on events that have dominated the public stage, and we hear it...
