“They stole $77,000. And that was all of my savings.” Her voice was so soft I (Doug) had to lean in to hear her. “I’ve talked with the local police, the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission. The money is...
Now that the Twelve Days of Christmas are behind us and the confetti we tossed to usher in the new year has been swept up, we finally can be honest: 2024 is going to be a dumpster fire. Perhaps you…
Jan. 14 will mark 100 days since the inhuman Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapping of hundreds more, 136 of whom still are held hostage in Gaza. They are citizens of 20 nations…
President Joe Biden’s successful campaign for the presidency in 2020 was resuscitated from near intensive care desperation thanks to Black voters in South Carolina and the endorsement of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn. South Carolina is the first Democratic Party…
It has been six years and less than one month since the last time my life came to standstill over a medical emergency. That was Dec. 13, 2017, when I unexpectedly suffered a spinal cord injury during a surgery that…
U.S. evangelical leaders are urging presidential candidates to consult Scripture before finalizing their positions on immigration ahead of the 2024 election. Filtering campaign rhetoric through the Bible would inspire policies that balance the needs of border security and compassionate care…
Of late, as regular readers know, I’ve been reflecting on how conservative American Christianity has chased political and temporal power to the great detriment of its mission and our common witness, how the Church, instead of being light and leaven,…
They “drove them out.” That’s what the book of Acts says a certain religio-political contingent did to Paul and Barnabas in Antioch of Pisidia, a crossroads of Roman-controlled towns in first century Asia Minor. As the text tells it, they…
Have you noticed how museum exhibitions, like everything else, have changed? As a creative person, I’ve quietly observed this for years while visiting museums on the West Coast. Big changes were a topic of conversation recently at Crocker Art Museum…
If concerned church leaders want to protect their congregations against the kind of sexual misconduct uncovered recently at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark., they must make sexual ethics a priority, United Methodist leaders who helped create their denomination’s…
The tide of migrants seeking entry into the United States cannot be stemmed with border security measures alone, the Migration Policy Institute reported in a new study. Migrant encounters at the United States’ southern border reached a record 2.5 million…
Leland Webb, longtime staff member and editor of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board’s magazine, The Commission, died Jan. 8. He was 91. Webb served on the staff of The Commission 32 years, the final 15 years as editor, leading…
The Passport Christian summer camp organization has announced the three recipients of its Chester Phelps Passport Seminary Scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year. Jessalyn Brown of Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, Sophia Carter of the Wake Forest University School of…
