by Don Gordon | Apr 17, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The world’s population reached the eight billion mark on November 15, 2022. The number is mind-numbingly colossal. Seven billion, eight billion, what’s the difference? That’s the way I felt until reading some speculative analyses regarding the recent pandemic. A...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 24, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Douglas Abrams writes in The Book of Hope, a book he co-authored with Jane Goodall: “Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake that evolution made.” While that is a rather despairing view, in the end, this book is a book of hope, though not without it...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 2, 2010 | News
(RNS) A new study says that the population of North American Amish has increased by nearly 10 percent in the past two years, causing many communities to turn westward in search of new land. Conducted by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at...
by Craig Bird | Mar 22, 2004 | Opinion
The cultural, economic, political–and religious–impact of Hispanics in the United States is significant and growing, says a Baptist university president working to train church leaders for the continuing Hispanic population boom. Projections released March...