By Gary Wilemon I read something in a recent issue of Reader’s Digest that I think really deserves a wider audience. It’s a short anecdote written by Vidal Clay, and here it is in its entirety: In December 1997 Elizabeth Clay was driving home from Boston University to spend the holiday break with her parents …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
The Burial of Jesus
By Walton Weaver The Hebrew custom of providing a burial place for the dead is first introduced in Scripture with Abraham’s purchase of a cave in the land of Canaan for the burial of Sarah (Gen. 23:1ff.). Although Joseph was first embalmed and put in a “coffin” in Egypt (Gen. 50:26), because of his own …
Animal Rights
By Clarence R. Johnson Over the past five decades we’ve heard a lot about rights — human rights, civil rights, states rights, in alienable rights, the right to keep and bear arms, women’s rights, a woman’s “right” to an abortion — and now “animal rights.” This is a complicated subject and maybe not as “black and white, cut …
You’re Not An Apostle (1)
By Mike Willis On more than one occasion, I have used apostolic example to authorize conduct that I was engaged in only to have the one who objected to the conduct to respond, “But, you’re not an apostle.” On one occasion, I was refuting false doctrine and referred to a religious group by name and …