by Joao Chaves | Sep 3, 2021 | News
Demographic and social trends show that our increasingly diverse world will continue to become more complex. In the U.S., 70% of the largest cities are more racially and ethnically diverse today than they were 10 years ago. For example, in Louisville, Kentucky, from...
by Scott Stearman | Jul 23, 2021 | Opinion
Many in the U.S. tend to think of foreign places and people in broad stereotypes. The French have their wine, cheese and strange vowels, while the Germans love beer and harsh consonants in words a mile long. It’s not that there’s no truth to these cultural glimpses,...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jul 8, 2021 | News
Warfare, droughts, famine, widespread hunger, floods, locust swarms and a global pandemic – all of these have been endured by the South Sudanese over the past decade. Amid the turmoil, faith leaders like Edward Dima, pastor of First Baptist Church in Kajo-Keji and...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion
Professor Bill Hoyt, chair of the department of religion and philosophy, returned what we students of old called “term papers” – pecked out on a typewriter and smeared with the brushed-on, corrective fluid branded as Wite-Out. It was my first research paper in an...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 29, 2021 | Opinion
There was a time, a few decades ago, when a woman being called to the pastorate of a church with historical connections to Southern Baptists was so rare (sadly) and such a big deal (for good reasons) that it created major headlines. In each case, it seems, I knew the...
