by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 1, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Last year, I gave a talk at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine. The title of my presentation was “When the Oppressed Become Oppressors.” A few days later on October 7, war broke out. A year has passed and the war continues. The innocent continues to...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 9, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: For many Christian traditions, the season of Epiphany begins on January 6 and ends on the first day of Lent. One of the benefits of growing up a Latine child in the U.S. is that we get presents twice during the Christmas season. Like everyone else, we...
by Craig Nash | Dec 21, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
You can best describe my music of choice as “American Roots.” Before the 1920s, when entrepreneurs began to monetize music by fracturing it into marketable “genres” like “pop,” “hillbilly” and “race records,” it would have simply been called “music of the people.” It...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 16, 2019 | Opinion
Several news outlets have reported what some see as exciting news with headlines like “Relic believed to be of Jesus’ manger returned to Bethlehem” (UPI) and “After Two Thousand Years, Jesus’ Manger Returns to Bethlehem in Time for...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 20, 2017 | Opinion
Another day, another full quota of new experiences for the Campbell University Divinity School/Nurturing Faith Experiences group traveling in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. We began this day (for those willing to get up an hour earlier) with a short tour of the dig at...
