by Ken Sehested | Jul 20, 2022 | Opinion
Author’s note: This reflection on Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) is offered in remembrance of his life and ministry on the anniversary of his birth on July 18. I was a stranger in a strange land, having left behind a Baylor University football scholarship for the...
by Colin Harris | Jul 19, 2022 | Opinion
Immanuel Kant was one of the influential voices in what we now call the “Enlightenment.” In that period, mostly during the 18th century, the confluence of scientific discovery and philosophical inquiry ushered in what we now consider to be the modern age. Kant was...
by David M. Holley | Jul 19, 2022 | Opinion
The dominant impression of Christians in popular media isn’t very flattering. Christians are often represented as mindlessly dogmatic, harshly judgmental, and openly antagonistic toward those who don’t share their view of things. This impression can be challenged, of...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 18, 2022 | Opinion
What will it take for faith-based institutions to change? A July Gallup poll says that confidence in U.S. institutions is down. Gallup Senior Editor Jeffrey M. Jones reports, “Americans are less confident in major U.S. institutions than they were a year ago, with...
by Brenda McWilliams | Jul 18, 2022 | Opinion
Thomas Merton proposed in his 1965 book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander that a widely accepted U.S. myth was that “America is the earthly paradise.” “When a myth becomes a daydream, it is judged, found wanting, and must be discarded. To cling to it when it has lost...
by Kristina Collins | Jul 18, 2022 | Opinion
Conscious discipline helps people learn to better control and regulate their emotions. One of the practices taught in the CD programs I’ve taken is how to appropriately respond when we encounter something that is a “trigger” for us. I watched an online panel...
