by Ed Hogan | Mar 31, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
I grew up in East Texas where most people were Baptists and Methodists, so the most religious diversity I experienced was playing football with my Catholic neighbors. This all changed when I went to college at The University of Texas at Austin. I met famed atheist...
by Jim Hopkins | Mar 16, 2022 | Opinion
Stephen D. Jones writes that “the Gospels reveal that Jesus was an active learner” in his book Learning Jesus. He notes that Jesus “learned from the Syrophoenician woman, who insisted he take her seriously … from the Samaritan woman at the well … from his mother,...
by Ron Rolheiser | Nov 3, 2021 | Opinion
“No man is an island.” John Donne wrote those words four centuries ago, and they are as true now as they were then, except we don’t believe them anymore. Today, more and more of us are beginning to define our nuclear families and our carefully chosen circle of friends...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
Eight years ago, I wrote about the near miraculous resurrection of a Judean date palm from seeds that were, at the time, thought to be almost 2,000 years old. The seeds were found in 1963 in a collapsed storeroom in the desert stronghold of Masada, built by Herod “the...
by James Gordon | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion
John Wesley could be a pain. He was dogmatic, opinionated, partisan and stubbornly hard to shift from what he believed was the central ground of Christian faith. But that made him neither an exclusive nor a separatist from other Christians. In 1749, he preached a...
