by Philip Jenkins | Feb 19, 2020 | Opinion
What is the relationship between climate, climate change and religion? That is the subject of my current book project, which has a tentative title of “Climate, Catastrophe and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Revolutions” (under contract to Oxford). The...
by Keith Herron | Jul 29, 2019 | Opinion
Ever found yourself carried on the capricious winds of circumstance? Ever feel as though your life is a whimsical feather blowing aloft above the treetops where you might land – who knows where? Life is a like a box of chocolates, mind you, no telling what you might...
by Molly T. Marshall | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
Among some Christians you will often hear the aphorism: “Everything happens for a reason.” Really? How in the wake of hurricanes, internally displaced persons, floods, earthquakes and shattered infrastructures does one maintain this? It seems to infer...
by Agnes Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Opinion
The news is terrible lately. Maybe news always is bad. Many eras bristle with horror, and knowing some history gives us perspective. But it seems so bad now: Christians beheaded in Libya and more fleeing to Egypt, Christians kidnapped in Syria, ancient artifacts...
by Keith Herron | Aug 14, 2014 | General
A sermon by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. August 10, 2014 Genesis 37:1-11 The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Psalms 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b; Matt. 14:22-33; Romans 10:5-15 It would not be unusual for anyone to ask, “Why are we spending...
