by Jim Kelsey | Mar 12, 2020 | Opinion
I felt I was being cheated, and then the service manager mocked me. I had taken my car in because the check engine light was on; it was running fine when I took it in. I agreed to pay $65 for a diagnostic test. After two hours, they told me they could not find a...
by Ross Langmead | Feb 21, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Dec. 15, 2004. At the time of publication, Langmead (1949-2013) was professor of missiology and director of the School of World Mission at Whitley College, the Baptist Theological College of Victoria, Australia. Someone...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion
We’re all familiar, I suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. Charity is giving away some of your time, energy, resources and person so as to help others in need. And that’s an admirable virtue, the sign of a good heart. Justice, on the other hand,...
by Colin Holtz | Feb 18, 2019 | Opinion
When William Wilberforce mounted a decades-long campaign to ban slavery in the British Empire, his deep evangelical piety sustained him. When Ida B. Wells risked her life to expose the horrors of lynching, she did so out of a faith in a crucified God. Oscar Romero was...
by Philip Jenkins | May 10, 2018 | Opinion
I criticized in a recent column the idea that Christians should not cooperate with the criminal justice system to the point that churches refuse to call police. That does not mean that churches should accept every aspect of contemporary ideas of crime and punishment,...
