by Carol A. Brown | May 23, 2022 | Opinion
There is nothing quite like planning for your demise to awaken the awareness that this world is not our home. As it says in the old hymn, “This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through.” Recently, I met with an attorney to finalize instructions in my...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 13, 2021 | News
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby emphasized the call of Christians to care for creation. In the Sept. 1 joint statement, the three faith leaders urged readers to “not waste this moment” and to “decide what kind...
by Colin Harris | Sep 10, 2019 | Opinion
“How many of you have read Theodor Geisel’s book on social and economic inequality?” Long before our current discussions of the legacy of exploitation and the response of reparation, former seminary colleague Alan Neely began a chapel reflection with this question. A...
by Colin Harris | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion
The co-teacher of our weekly Sunday School class grew up Jewish. As such, he is our resident resource person for questions about the religious conceptual framework within which both the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures came to be. He observed in a recent discussion...
by Colin Harris | Nov 2, 2017 | Opinion
Baptist icon George W. Truett was the focus of a recent high school assembly in Hayesville, North Carolina, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clay County native’s birth. An invitation to participate in the event sent me to Keith Durso’s excellent...
