by Ircel Harrison | Feb 16, 2011 | Opinion
When I was a young seminary student just out of the military, I was befriended by my next-door neighbor in seminary housing. He was in his early 50s with grown children. After serving as a lay leader in churches for a number of years, he had been ordained to the...
by Mike Harton | Jul 14, 2009 | Opinion
Two recent conversations haunt me. An old college friend, a leading-edge baby boomer (age 63) whom I knew to be a person of faith in college, told me he and his wife “had given up on the institutional church.” The other conversation was with an educated...