by Danny Chisholm | Sep 11, 2013 | Opinion
It’s becoming fashionable to condemn and criticize the church. It’s popular, and you’ll get a following if you do it long and loud enough. It’s becoming a favorite pastime of folks who are dealing with how the church has disappointed them or...
by Arthur Brown | Oct 22, 2012 | Opinion
As I have looked at various news articles over the last few weeks, it has struck me, yet again, how good we all are at apportioning blame on others while neglecting to ask questions about our own faults. Have you ever noticed that the trouble with “our...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Mar 14, 2012 | Opinion
“Will you please make my life improve and improve now?” Being a pastor is a “one size fits all” kind of job filled with lots of expectations. People want happier lives – all the time – so it’s not unusual that we are asked to do so much...
by Gene Davenport | Nov 11, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: Gene Davenport gave the following remarks at the Lambuth University Quadrangle in Jackson, Tenn., on May 7, 1970. He delivered them in response to students’ invitation to speak about violence at Kent State University that claimed four lives....
by Robert Parham | Sep 17, 2009 | Opinion
Unhinged politicians, wrathful preachers, belligerent protesters and hateful pundits pursue a practice as old as the Bible. They create scapegoats. Â The practice of the scapegoat has its genesis in the biblical book of Leviticus, where the sins of the people were...
