by Sean Powell | Dec 1, 2022 | Opinion
“The people in this town need Jesus and if they want him, they know where to find him.” These bitter words echoed through my mind as I sat in a quarterly business meeting at the Baptist church that I had been a member of for most of my youth. This statement was a...
by Ryan Busby | Mar 26, 2020 | Opinion
I reread my e-book copy of “The Violence of Love” by Oscar Romero on Tuesday morning in honor of his martyrdom on March 24, 1980. He was the archbishop of San Salvador and was assassinated while celebrating Mass. His assassination came from the order of Salvadorian... by Colin Harris | Sep 29, 2016 | Opinion
Idolatry and injustice seem to be at the top of the list of violations of covenant faith. The prophets and historians of ancient Israel identified the tendency to claim “godness” for one’s own thinking and behavior as the primary “flaw”... by Greg DeLoach | Nov 2, 2015 | Opinion
Every child wants to know, and many have the courage to ask, “What does God look like?” The adult in all of us wants to quickly answer in a theologically correct way saying, “God cannot be pictured. An image is idolatrous because no one image can... by Colin Harris | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
Parallel images of barbaric atrocities committed by extremists and of health workers risking and giving their lives in the effort to control the Ebola pandemic raise the penetrating question of who we are and who we have become as a human family. On a lesser scale,...
