by Bob Newell | Mar 7, 2018 | Opinion
We recently traveled across this country for the privilege of learning from Jimmy Carter. The Nobel Prize winner and 39th president of the United States, now in his 90s, continues a disciplined practice, learned from his father’s model and begun as an...
by Bob Newell | Dec 15, 2017 | Opinion
Jesus is God in the flesh. This assertion opens John’s Gospel through the proclamation, “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14). Theologians use a $4 word to describe this process, referring to it as “incarnation.” That Jesus took on a human...
by Bob Newell | Dec 21, 2016 | Opinion
Easily obscured by the contemporary, somewhat artificial, expressions of a cultural Christmas is the reality that the original Bethlehem story occurred against a backdrop of pain and dislocation for its primary characters. While we celebrate with great festivity the...
by Bob Newell | Apr 6, 2016 | Opinion
My wife and I recently returned to Athens, Greece, to minister among Greeks and Albanians. The lives, fortunes and misfortunes of many there continue to matter to us, despite the reality that we no longer live among them. Their struggles remain current to us and our...
by Bob Newell | Jan 28, 2016 | Opinion
Vernon and Gladys learned in early 1934, less than two years after they married, that she was expecting twins. Poverty, like swollen river flood water, was always lapping at the front door for this young, northeast Mississippi couple, causing Vernon to work extra odd...
