Federal Reserve Board chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently gave the commencement address at the University of South Carolina. (Bernanke grew up in Dillon, SC, a part
As bad as the law is, to compare Arizona’s tough new immigration law with Nazi Germany is “inappropriate and irresponsible, ” says The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
The Greenbelt festival is a music and arts festival for Christians that takes place in the middle of August in the UK. Many Christian groups, musicians, and speakers representing a broad spectrum of Christianity take part. Recently, some evangelicals have been unhappy with their choice of speakers and have begun to boycott the festival. Strangely, when these groups call for a boycott, ticket sales go up.
June Butler, aka Grandmère Mimi, who keeps the blog “Wounded Bird” is taking a well-earned rest from blogging.
What does it mean to be cool and what does it mean to be Christian. Are these competing aims? Why is the church today so preoccupied with being cool, fashionable, trendy, and relevant? Where does this phenomenon fit in to the larger narrative of “hip” and “Christian cool”?
May 13 commemorates Francis Perkins, who was instrumental in the creation of Social Security. Did you ever ponder the spiritual and theological roots of Social Security?
What is the best and most effective approach to take?
One of the mainsprings of Christian self-understanding in the formative years of the Church’s life was the idea that the believer was essentially a ‘migrant’, someone who was in any and every situation poised between being at home and being a stranger.
“We will accomplish a lot more by being here, learning, hearing and responding about it and standing in solidarity with people suffering instead of taking the easy way out by saying let’s go meet someplace else,” said Arizona Bishop Kirk Smith.
. . .I have considered myself Jewish since shortly after my bar mitzvah. For safety’s sake, I ordered two sets of dog tags before my deployment, one that identified me as Jewish, the other as Episcopalian