by Gordon King | May 11, 2022 | Opinion
Generations of sincere people have abused and misused the fourth beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount. It is time to rescue this saying – “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” – from perfectionist moralities and allow it...
by Kathy Manis Findley | May 10, 2022 | Opinion
A wise Sierra Leonean proverb has been my guiding statement since 2002: “She who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it.” It has guided me well, keeping me from unwise actions. The proverb was important in my ministry with abused women and children. In that...
by Barry Howard | May 10, 2022 | Opinion
My wife, a true child of the south, loves sweet tea. I, on the other hand, prefer unsweet tea with fresh lime or lemon. At least twice recently, as we were dining out, our server refilled my wife’s sweet tea glass with unsweetened iced tea. In both cases, when we...
by Starlette Thomas | May 9, 2022 | Opinion
The Roe v. Wade decision brings up painful memories for many women and the children they felt forced to give birth to. While it has been nearly 50 years of political bickering, the children caught in the middle often don’t get a say. Recently, POLITICO reported that a...
by Monty Self | May 9, 2022 | Opinion
The scope of the right to privacy has been debated from the beginning of the U.S. With the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization making headlines last week, the general public is becoming more aware of how the right to privacy has been a...
by Alyssa Aldape | May 6, 2022 | Opinion
I did one of the dumbest things of my seminary career during the summer of 2013. I took a summer course on not one but two biblical languages. As if ancient Hebrew and Greek weren’t difficult on their own, I said “hold my beer” to my sanity and now have the C on my...
