by John D. Pierce | Mar 23, 2021 | Opinion
American evangelicals love to love — at times, quite widely. They give generously to “foreign missions,” with hope some unknown, lost souls in faraway lands will be rescued from eternal damnation. Many will take a trip — and pay their own expenses — to help dig a well...
by Amanda Tyler | Apr 22, 2020 | Opinion
We are all learning how to live life in new ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic, coordinating work and family responsibilities amid a global crisis. Our religious communities continue to grapple with how to respond to this unprecedented time, as officials from the...
by Bruce Prescott | Aug 2, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Oct. 25, 2010. At the time of publication, Prescott was executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, president of the Norman, Oklahoma, chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and host of...
by Roger Olson | Feb 18, 2015 | Opinion
I have read many newspaper columns complaining that atheists are unjustly discriminated against when they are excluded by nonchurch organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and the Boy Scouts. Two specific cases come to mind. First, a few years ago a high school...
by Jim Kelsey | Aug 20, 2014 | Opinion
I still remember clearly a brief conversation I had 20 years ago. At a weekly clergy group meeting, a woman, who had just returned from a trip to Russia where she discovered some Jewish lineage in her distant forbearers, effusively declared, “I’m a white,...
