by John D. Pierce | Jun 8, 2020 | Opinion
Asking, “How was church last Sunday?” has a whole new connotation. The answer is likely to have a technical dimension. Curses, biblical and otherwise, rained down on Zoom’s unfaithfulness one Sunday in mid-May. Other online services were delivered as advertised....
by Tony Cartledge | May 27, 2020 | News
Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), announced that leaders will celebrate Pentecost amid the pandemic by hosting a “virtual global BWA worship service” on Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30. Both services will feature a short message...
by Jack Moline | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion
We seem to have a fascination with work – we human beings. From the very beginning of the story we tell about ourselves in Western culture, we are first and foremost concerned about work. The first two words in the Hebrew Bible mean (depending on how you translate)...
by Tony Cartledge | Feb 12, 2020 | Opinion
Beneath a huge bridge on the main road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just past a huge subdivision called Mevaseret Zion and less than four miles northwest of the Old City, one can find the remains of an ancient temple that may have been used to worship both Yahweh and...
by Nathan Myrick | Feb 5, 2020 | Opinion
Music means according to how it feels. I closed the last iteration of this series by pointing out that musical meaning is often constructed around – and uses the material of – its emotional content or ability to invoke or evoke emotion. So how exactly does music...
