Latest Articles
Telling the Truth to the Church
By Rob Renfroe - It’s a southern tradition to emphasize a point you are about to make with the phrase, “As my dear mother used to say when I was a child …” When we hear someone begin that way in Texas, we listen up because we love our mommas and ...
Is the Traditional Plan Unconstitutional?
By Thomas Lambrecht - News Analysis Anxious church commentators are wondering if the latest development in the lead-up to the special called General Conference in February 2019 means the Traditional Plan is fatally flawed. In a comprehensive ...
Meeting Hope in Advent
By Flemming Rutledge - In a very real sense, the Christian community lives in Advent all the time. It can well be called the Time Between, because the people of God live in the time between the first coming of Christ, incognito in the stable in ...
Exile on Main Street
By Rick McKinley - Once upon a time in America, the majority of the population shared Judeo-Christian values. The average American was somewhat familiar with the biblical faith in Jesus and more than likely had attended some type of Christian church ...
Sacred and Fractured Days
By Elizabeth Glass Turner - We live in fractured days. Life seems fractious (“irritable; quarrelsome”). We have pieces, slivers that don’t seem to fit well into a whole. Sunday school classes are tense and subjects begin to veer toward anything ...
In the News
Finding Gratitude When Paradise is Lost
By Steve Beard- As families and friends gather on Thanksgiving to watch football, meticulously avoid politics, and feast on holiday favorites, the day will be starkly different for the first ...
