by Richard Wilson | Dec 1, 2020 | Opinion
The second Sunday of Advent – the week we set fire to the Peace candle – has confused me for as long as I can remember. The cluster of texts in Year B, our current cycle, sends mixed messages of comfort and dismay, restoration and destruction, and the hope for renewal...
by Richard Wilson | Jan 17, 2020 | Opinion
Accomplished orators – whether they are preachers or politicians – often weave old themes and phrases upon new looms. Sometimes, they fold up a tapestry completed for one setting and unfurl it, as if new, in a different setting. Martin Luther King Jr. did. His sermons...
by Richard Wilson | Dec 2, 2019 | Opinion
Isaiah 11:1-10 offers a full, vibrant glimpse of hopes for peace, giving readers a touchstone for another Advent season where our proclamations of “peace on earth” are spoken with quivering lips and a fear that our voices will crack. Global political strife is as high...
by Richard Wilson | Nov 15, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on July 8, 2003. At the time of publication, Wilson was professor of theology and chair of the Roberts Department of Christianity at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. The idea of a Christian America is deeply entrenched in...
by Richard Wilson | Jul 5, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Dec. 7, 2001. At the time of publication, Wilson was professor of theology and chair of the Roberts Department of Christianity at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. It is republished today following the Fourth of July...
