by Jen Zamzow | Aug 12, 2019 | Opinion
The cycle has become sadly predictable. Mass shooting, followed by offers of thoughts and prayers and little else. Many have criticized this “thoughts and prayers” response as being an empty gesture – an attempt to look good without actually doing the hard work of...
by John Mark Boes | Aug 12, 2019 | Opinion
I’m hesitant to write this. After my last Cooperative Baptist Fellowship blog piece titled “Does This Have to Be America?,” I received some criticism for my apparent lack of “speaking truth to power,” and the feeling that I represented the views of the “elite.” My...
by Merianna Harrelson | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
I was nervous. It was Saturday morning, and the sermon I had written and prepared felt unfinished and just wasn’t sitting right. I don’t like entering into the weekend with that kind of feeling, but after years of preaching every Sunday, I knew this meant I was...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
The communities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, were attacked by domestic terrorism last weekend. Family and friends were enjoying a wonderful weekend when their American dream was destroyed by two gunmen filled with rage, anger and hate. When the bullets fell...
by Marv Knox | Aug 7, 2019 | Opinion
Gunshots that slaughtered at least 22 people in El Paso, Texas, last Saturday echoed around the world. They particularly reverberated in the hearts of residents of the American Southwest. The murderer (Let’s refuse to placate the perversion of mass murderers by...
