by Tony Cartledge | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
As Donald Trump basks in a self-designed and elaborate military send-off from Washington and Joe Biden takes the solemn oath of office as our 46th president, I am reminded that in America, we don’t do kings. We do elections. Free and fair elections: cries and lies of...
by Colin Harris | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
Georgia’s recent election of a prominent pastor to serve in the U.S. Senate has prompted some reflection on our time-honored and carefully maintained principle of the “separation of church and state.” The reported intention of Raphael Warnock to continue to serve as...
by Jim Hopkins | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
Many tributes to Martin Luther King Jr. fail to recognize that he was a Baptist pastor, a minister formed by and committed to the traditions of the African American church. The connection between King’s powerful expression of the truth and the truth-telling tradition...
by Michael Chancellor | Jan 20, 2021 | Opinion
It is time to revisit what it means to be a Christian citizen. Over the last 40 years, U.S. Christians have been engulfed with Christian nationalism, which has overrun many evangelical churches, especially during the last five years. Mark 12:14b-17 and Romans 13:1-6...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 19, 2021 | Opinion
The redefinition of Americanized Christianity from a primary call to follow Jesus to a fear-based ideology has solidified during the highly divisive political activities of recent years. To accomplish this fuller evangelical evolution, words had to change meanings....
by Jessica McDougald | Jan 19, 2021 | Opinion
The Divine Offices are an ancient monastic practice of praying specific prayers at specific times throughout the day that I encountered years ago. Fascinated by this concept, I searched for books of these prayers and found one by Phyllis Tickle. At the time, I had no...
