by Garrett Vickrey | Feb 23, 2018 | Opinion
A man called our church in need of help last week. Craig (not his real name) was making his way from Maryland back home to Los Angeles when he got sick. He has suffered with AIDS for many years. Along the way, he ran out of medication, lost his train ticket and ended...
by Mitch Randall | Jan 29, 2018 | Opinion
A Masai tribal talking stick helped broker a deal in Washington last week. With the U.S. government shutdown, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) made her Senate colleagues use this stick during their deliberations as a means of forcing each other to listen. The talking...
by James Gordon | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion
John Wesley could be a pain. He was dogmatic, opinionated, partisan and stubbornly hard to shift from what he believed was the central ground of Christian faith. But that made him neither an exclusive nor a separatist from other Christians. In 1749, he preached a...
by Joe LaGuardia | May 26, 2015 | Opinion
Christianity is a collaborative faith. In a letter to churches in Corinth, the apostle Paul confronted several congregations that were arguing with each other. The thrust of his message was that no two churches were alike and each one served a purpose in the body of...
by Bob Newell | Apr 23, 2014 | Opinion
On Sunday, Sept. 3, 1967, I had recently moved into a graduate student apartment and was about to embark on an academic journey, which would lead to my first master’s degree. My personal life was happily consumed with the delightful challenge of adjusting to the...
