by John D. Pierce | Dec 20, 2022 | Opinion
We all know what a shepherd looks like, don’t we? About three feet tall. Wears a striped bathrobe. Shaggy head adorned with a blue bath towel and a headband. Holds a crooked stick. Wears Nikes. In my day, they were Converse. Despite all the competing grand productions...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 10, 2021 | Opinion
On this third week of Advent, I hope for you the kind of joy that I found this week. Since the birth of my second son, his mother noted that his twenty-first birthday would coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. We knew it would...
by Alyssa Aldape | Dec 7, 2021 | Opinion
Millennial Pink, also known as Rose Quartz, was Pantone’s color of the year in 2016. This choice of color represented so much more than a hue we would find in clothing stores for years to come. It symbolized breaking down the gender norms in which society assigned...
by David Cassady | May 7, 2021 | Opinion
Plenty of trends look tough for the future of the church. We read about the rise of the “nones” who have no affiliation with a faith tradition, much less a church. We see the decline in attendance across mainline and evangelical churches. We wonder, “Will giving hold...
by Dale K. Edmondson | Dec 16, 2020 | Opinion
Were Charlie Brown’s Schroeder still with us, he would probably be bent over his toy piano today singing, “Happy Birthday” to Beethoven – his 250th! We’re not certain that the 16th is his birthday; we know only that he was baptized on the 17th at Bonn’s Church of St....
