by Philip Hefner | May 8, 2022 | Commentary
April brings warming days and signs of Spring’s fertility. We associate April with hopefulness — cold wintry days are only a memory. But what is happening in the world around us can sometimes dash our joy and hopes. When the poet T. S. Eliot, was writing in the early...
by Susan Barreto | Mar 16, 2022 | Commentary
The man that brought us the famous quote of the medium is the message in the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan, also is quoted as saying in a speech in the pre-Internet era that: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” It certainly...
by Susan Barreto | Feb 16, 2022 | Commentary
We all have claimed Zoom fatigue at some point over the past 2+ years now. But I can’t help but think of the pastors and other worship leaders who have had to plan in some cases two different worship services every Sunday and often change everything to online only on...
by Susan Barreto | Jan 8, 2022 | Commentary
In the beginning, there was a perception of conflict. Simply it stood between what we saw with our own eyes and the sense there was something more, an ultimate, a transcendent beneath what humans could touch, taste, see, or readily explain. Perhaps that is why...
by Susan Barreto | Nov 20, 2021 | Commentary
Chances are if you are reading this article, you are already a believer. A believer in that science and faith are not at odds with one another. It also means, according to the often-quoted survey from Pew Research, that you disagree with the majority of the public...
by George L. Murphy | Oct 13, 2021 | Commentary
NATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. Alexander Pope’s lines were intended as an epitaph for Isaac Newton.https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-isaac-newton Foremost in his mind...