by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
Everything is of one piece. Whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. The renowned theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, gives an example of this. Beauty, he submits, is not some little “extra” that we can value or denigrate according to personal taste and...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 14, 2018 | Opinion
Does cooperation create a sense of solidarity and moral obligation toward one’s partners? A recent World Bank working paper suggests that it does. The paper shares findings from an experiment in which participants were organized into groups of three. Some sets of...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
Helen Zille, the former leader of South Africa’s main opposition party and the current premier of the Western Cape, recently tweeted, “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure,...
by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 25, 2016 | Opinion
I was blessed to grow up in a very sheltered and safe environment. My childhood was lived inside of a virtual cocoon. In the remote, rural, first-generation, immigrant community I grew up in, we all knew each other, all went to the same church, all belonged to the...
by William Brackney | May 7, 2010 | Opinion
Given their unique congregational structures, Baptists have easily adopted tribal patterns for their ongoing solidarity. These can be based upon linguistic, cultural, regional or theological factors. For instance, we know of Hispanic Baptists, black Baptists, Southern...
