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Mark Coppenger
Mark Coppenger is a retired professor, pastor, denominational worker, editor, and army reserve officer. Through the years, he’s done books on biblical justice, bioethics, apologetical ethics, arts in the church, philosophically freighted court cases, the philanthropic ministries of the Emmanuel Kampourises, and the spiritual history of Marshall University. He posts at markcoppenger.com.
by | Jan 2, 2024

Mississippi’s Michael Cassidy stands charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for “vandalizing” the Satanic Temple’s display in the Iowa capitol. Well, there’s been a bunch of vandalizing going on, including that directed at a 25-foot-tall statue of a mounted Confederate general,…

by | Nov 21, 2023

When I watch what’s unfolding in Israel, with Hamas to the southwest and Hezbollah to the north, I think of two books I’ve read. One on Islam I picked up in a Southeast Asia airport — Malaysia and the Club…

by | Oct 14, 2023

The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. The author recounts a month’s worth of experience in Maine, doing time as a substitute teacher with…

by | Aug 27, 2023

Willie McLaurin and I have something in common: We both have had to step down from leading a Southern Baptist Convention entity — he as interim president of the Executive Committee, I as president of Midwestern Seminary. He just resigned…

by | May 27, 2023

Though seventeen years in Chicago made me a Cubs fan, I’ve been a Dodgers follower since 1955, when, as a seven-year-old, I rejoiced that they’d finally bested their nemesis Yankees in the World Series. I was a newcomer to the…

by | Apr 29, 2023

Khartoum is wracked by violence, and my mind goes back over two decades to a couple of trips I took to that city, which is positioned dramatically at the confluence of the muddy White Nile and the dark Blue Nile….

by | Mar 29, 2023

This past December, we attended a Christmas Eve service at a church in Southeast Asia. In the midst of the singing and preaching, they presented a drama featuring Herod and his court as he dealt with reports from the Wise…

by | Mar 25, 2023

Recently, a dozen archbishops from the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches signed a letter rejecting the traditional notion that the Archbishop of Canterbury is the “first among equals” and the “focus of unity” in the Global Anglican Communion. They’d…

by | Dec 24, 2022

Yesterday, I passed through airports in two decidedly non-Christian nations. In one terminal, “Merry X-mas” played in foot-high letters on a digital screen; in the second, a bigger-than-life Santa stood under “Merry Christmas” cutouts with an arm upraised in greeting….

by | Nov 12, 2022

Nashville was on the short list (with Milwaukee the alternative) to host the 2024 GOP convention, but our Democrat-besotted city council would have none of it and so turned its back on a financial windfall. A local PR firm dumped…

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