I first heard the word when I was a boy. My grandmother told me about the days when she was a young woman and “the Chautauqua” came and briefly flooded our hometown in South Georgia with culture. There were plays,…
KINGDOM VISION: Hope and anguish
There’s a story in the Bible, and if I were to present that story in a slide format, I would probably use two different slides. One slide would be of Jesus going with Peter, James and John up to the…
WINN RECOMMENDS
Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community, Charles Marsh and John Perkins (IVP) Through his prolific pen, Marsh, professor and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, has sketched historical accounts, a memoir and a…
OPINION: Lottie Moon: The person and the legend
“It is a small thing to be judged of a man’s judgment. It is good to know that we are judged by God.” As I began my graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I stumbled…
VITAL SIGNS: Is your church making you healthy or sick?
Our 10-month-old grandson recently went through a medical emergency. His immune system was compromised and his body was under assault from an infection. He needed immediate treatment and the diagnosis called for him to receive intravenous immunoglobulin. This is a…
OUT LOUD
“What serious, let alone decent religiously conscious person — left or right, conservative or liberal — would knowingly work to enrich this dreadful man who will go down in history as the epitome of everything that all religion says it’s…
EDITORIAL: Where the Spirit moves
Like an elephant in the room, China cannot be ignored. Apart from its growing economic prowess and global influence, of particular interest to Christians worldwide is the Chinese Church. In the last issue of the Herald, I reported on a…
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State Department tries to raise visibility of religious freedom
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Often accused of ignoring religion as they craft foreign policy, the White House and State Department are trying to show that religion is a rising priority for U.S. diplomacy. The most recent case in point: Secretary of…
High profile for religious freedom
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Often accused of ignoring religion as they craft foreign policy, the White House and State Department are trying to show that religion is a rising priority for U.S. diplomacy. The most recent case in point: Secretary of…