By Drew Griffin: Much is being and has been written on marriage of late.  As society shifts and culture grapples with the complexities of modern sexuality, marriage has often been in the focus.  And while forces on the right and left contend over the language and legitimacy of marriage there is a third front to...

  By Jeremiah G. Dys Wednesday, Kirsten Powers suggested that there is a new era in “Jim Crow” laws, that of businessmen and women of faith objecting to the participation and endorsement of homosexual marriages by the use of their business.  Thursday, Jonathan Merritt stoked the fire – and extended the analogy – by invoking Martin Luther King, Jr.’s...

By Michael Berry: Paradox: par•a•dox; noun: something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible. Born in the late 1970’s, my earliest childhood memories were formed during the 1980’s.  Accordingly, I experienced the tail-end of what was known as the “Red...

By Drew Griffin: Almost no one will remember where they were.  In fact few will even see the significance of what occurred this last week. There was a time and an era when the event that transpired on February 8th would have unleashed a firestorm of media coverage and unprecedented political repercussions.  In the past,...

By Jeremiah G. Dys Dear Wheaton Students, Reading, as an outsider, of your demonstration of a guest speaker at your college, I found myself disappointed in your intellectual honesty and concerned of your spiritual fruit.  That you have protested is no big deal.  College kids have been demonstrating against things for decades, maybe centuries.  Aside...

by Hershael York In 1980, the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church ventured far out on a very flimsy limb and called a 20-year old junior from Michigan State to be their Minister of Music and Youth. On my first day at the church, Tanya and I went on a date together for the first time. Thirteen...