After George Floyd’s death, petition to rename Harding auditorium gains support
After the videoed killing of George Floyd, Jackson House couldn’t stay silent any longer. The 2014 graduate of Harding University in Searcy, Ark., first learned…
Harding University
Lesson of pastor’s COVID-19 death: Faulty Scriptural interpretation can kill you
Bishop Gerald Glenn, pastor of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Richmond, Va., loudly and proudly disobeyed the warnings of the authorities against gatherings of…
Forgiving Carla’s killers
Easter Sunday 1995 was a beautiful day for Roy and Jeanie Willmon. Blue sky. Temperatures in the 70s. Their daughter, Carla, home for the weekend.…
Snake bites and shalom
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Uh-oh! I’m at a Church of Christ conference, and we’re talking about snake handling! Actually, it was a lecture on handling snake…
Amid coronavirus fears, Pepperdine bringing students home from China
As China’s death toll from the coronavirus rises, Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., is suspending its Shanghai study-abroad program and bringing the 36 participating students…
Adapt or die?
Adapt to the culture you’re serving, but not in a way that compromises the truth of the Gospel. For centuries, that was the challenge for…
Newsmakers, November 2019
Featured Photo (above): Dan Williams presents the Distinguished Christian Service Award to Ava Conley during Harding University’s Bible lectureship. HONORED Ava Conley, emeritus professor of Spanish…
It’s time to talk about predators in the church
SEARCY, Ark. — The predator repented. Or so he claimed. He’d done his time and confessed his sins. He was a changed man. Or so he…
Guilty and forgiven
SEARCY, Ark. — A stunned silence fell over the daily chapel service at Harding University, where police shooting victim Botham Shem Jean, 26, earned his…
Roundup: Sex abuse in the church, justice for Botham Jean, Ukraine meeting and more
Our end-of-the-week review of important and/or simply interesting headlines from the world of religion. Got a tip for this column? Email Editor-in-Chief Bobby Ross Jr.…
