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The 10-Foot Pole 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
Early last year Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, received a call from a press agency. The caller wanted someone in the seminary's administration to go on record supporting President George W. Bush's plan to fund faith-based organizations (FBOs). The presumption of the caller was that since Southern Seminary was under the auspices of
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Liberty Versus Terror 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
Voices cry out from newspaper editorials and TV and radio talk shows daily-demanding what most of us took for granted prior to September l1, 200l-the safety and security of ourselves and our families. This end must be achieved, the majority agrees, regardless of the Impact on civil liberties. "I'm happy to give up some of
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Family Matters 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
The home was not notorious in the community as an abusive one. In, fact, the family-members of a conservative Christian group called the Church of God, affiliated with the Mennonites-were known to their neighbors as a happy, law-abiding family with well adjusted children. However, on July 4, 2001, an attention-grabbing scene took place on the
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Faith in Action 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
Faith in Action By Dick Stenbakken Just how do military requirements and religious responsibility fit together? How does someone with deeply held religious convictions work within the context of equally deeply held civic and military responsibilities? Where does one find help in balancing these two important parts of life? In the United States military there
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Bringing God to the Pentagon 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
Bringing God to the Pentagon By Bill Broome Bill Broome was at ground zero the day the Pentagon. was attacked. He works in the Personnel Department at the Army Chief of Chaplains Office. He helps make assignments for Army chaplains all over the world, but his job is not about paper-it's about people. These are
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Tis the Season 0
- March/April 2002
- March 1, 2002
By the People By Lincoln E. Steed A cold Christmas we had of it; what with plummeting economic indicators, spreading unemployment, tears to anthrax on even Christmas mail, and the prospect of continuing shocks in the ongoing war with terrorism. So much has changed in only a few months. And so much change continues to
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