by Bob Browning | Oct 18, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on October 14, 2012. Mark 10:17-31 This is a tough passage, and I wrestled with it every day last week. It contains one of the most demanding challenges found in the gospels, along...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Oct 17, 2012 | Opinion
“It’s the economy, stupid” was Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign slogan in 1992. Economics began as the science of political economy, but now most conventional economists regard the economy as a quasi-autonomous area of human...
by David Hughes | Mar 15, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on March 4, 2012. Mark 8:31-38; Luke 12:13-21 I’ve attended several Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in my life as a guest. And I’m always impressed with the unvarnished honesty...
by Al Webb | Dec 7, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says Jesus would have joined protesters from the anti-corporate Occupy movement who have been camped outside London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for more than seven weeks. In a British magazine, the leader of the world’s...
by Larry Greenfield | Oct 14, 2011 | Opinion
A friend reminded me awhile back that when the Pharisees were trying to trick Jesus in order to entrap him during that last week of his earthly life, he finessed their own entrapment. The question the Pharisees raised was simple: Is it, or is it not, lawful to pay...
