by Kessa Payne | Sep 16, 2025 | Opinion
In my formative college years, out from under the roof of the loving and protective home in which I grew up, I began to understand that the world was not as clear-cut as right or wrong, black or white. Between the extremes lay a gray area where my understanding of and...
by Luke Emerson | Sep 10, 2025 | Opinion
Recently, hundreds of undergraduate students gathered at Centre College’s annual Expo, an event that connects anxious first-year college students with eager club presidents, local vendors, nonprofits and campus offices. Expo serves to orient students on the...
by Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina | Aug 27, 2025 | Opinion
When I told my adult daughter we were working on an article about creating a Theology of Technology, she replied, “Well, that should be easy! There’s no technology in the Bible!” I know what she was thinking. Christian scripture has no mention of computers, cell...
by Chris Murphy | Aug 26, 2025 | Opinion
The church can be such a small place. Numerically small, sure. But that’s not what weighs on me. Our smallness runs deep, narrowing our imaginations, darkening our eyes to possibilities. We talk about God’s coming kin-dom (or Kingdom, depending on who you hang with),...
by Leah Davis | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday, I confessed to my suburban Washington, D.C. congregation something I had never done before in nearly 20 years of preaching and pastoring: I scrapped the previously written sermon and started over on Saturday night. Sure, I have altered sermons the...
