Easter thoughts from local church representatives
What is the most important word for Easter? Love By Bob Evans Reader Contributor It seems the more I digest the mysteries surrounding the declaration of eternal life made by the disciples of the...
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Being ‘woke’: Black Buddhists in America
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Every year at this time I write a column about Buddhism. The Buddha’s birthday is celebrated on different days depending on the country. In Japan it is always on...
Cyrus the Great versus Trump the Small
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Joining Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s clueless press secretary, 55 percent of white evangelicals believe that God has sent Donald Trump to save the nation. Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of...
The rise of the Religious Left in America
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken, the bruised, and all those who are made to feel unaccepted.” —Rev. William...
Suicides down 29 percent world-wide; up 30 percent in the U.S.
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist If America gave up its guns, suicides would crash. —The Economist(11/24/18) In 1972 I moved from Denmark, where I had had taught for one year, to Moscow to start...
Mahatma Gandhi: Love other religions as your own
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “So precious is a person’s faith in God that we should not harm that. Because God gave birth to all religions.” —St. Francis of Assis “I’ve broadened my Hinduism...
The day Confucius went to the United Nations
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and that they have “the right to life, liberty...
Christianity without Crucifixion in the Early Church
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist In July 2002, Rita Brock, a Disciples of Christ minister, and Rebecca Ann Parker, former president of Starr King Theological School, set out on a Mediterranean journey to confirm...
Mahatma Gandhi’s profound influence on Martin Luther King
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method. —Martin Luther King, Jr. I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical...
Virgin and Child: The Christmas Story according to Islam
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Most Christians do not know that Muslims hold Mary and Jesus in utmost esteem. The virgin mother of Jesus is mentioned 34 times in the Qur’an, where she is...
