by Andrew Kleissner | Nov 26, 2018 | Opinion
David Kerrigan was 8 years old and scared. It was 1962 and the Cuban missile crisis threatened to destroy the world. He cuddled his baby brother while listening to the radio and found his childhood peace being profoundly disturbed. The subject of peace is in the...
by David Kerrigan | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
Before we can discover whether all Baptists must always be card-carrying evangelicals, we must first define what evangelical means. David Bebbington’s 1988 book, “Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History,” offers four characteristics of...
by David Kerrigan | Dec 29, 2016 | Opinion
There is no walk of life, other than in a religious setting, where the term worship is properly used. We use it as a metaphor to try and express profound respect or love for another person – “He worships the very ground she walks on.” – but...
by David Kerrigan | Feb 18, 2016 | Opinion
Everyone’s talking about debt these days. And so they should, for it’s a critical issue. But is debt a bad thing? Is it reasonable to say that there’s good debt and bad debt? Good debt seems to me to be manageable – a mortgage is hopefully a...
by David Kerrigan | Jan 12, 2016 | Opinion
If, like most of us, you prefer your issues cut and dried, goodies and baddies, then climate change is just the kind of thing to avoid. For every opinion, you’ll find an opposite opinion; for every believer, in spite of scientific consensus that climate change...