by Colin Harris | Mar 30, 2021 | Opinion
“Humanitarian crisis” normally – and rightly – describes emergency situations where the well-being of people is in danger to a level that overwhelms their ability to respond. Currently, the influx of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border has earned the label,...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 25, 2021 | Opinion
The United States suffered two mass shootings, one in Atlanta, Georgia, and the other in Boulder, Colorado, during a seven-day period. With the cries of the victims and their families still echoing in our ears, the Christian church prepares to enter Holy Week in...
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...
