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December

Merry Christmas

by Randy Harp Merry Christmas! Okay, I will admit that is hard for me to say. Not because I don’t want you to have a merry Christmas, but because I am writing this the first […]

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On the Table

Milestones

by Keith Bassham While this is not my final issue as editor of the Tribune, this is likely my final “On the Table” introduction column. Next month a new name and a new face will […]

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October

A new normal

by Keith Bassham Two months ago, the Tribune published a response to the Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage throughout all the states. Among the observations, I indicated that those of us who hold […]

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On the Table

Chaplains

by Keith Bassham I had two close brushes with military life. Just after I graduated high school, I was living in Dallas, having been “lured” there by a couple of friends who shortly returned to […]

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On the Table

Back from summer break

by Keith Bassham During our summer hiatus, it was inevitable that we should return to a truckload of issues and news, and hardly any of it can be ignored even if we wanted it so. […]

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On the Table

A part of history

by Keith Bassham A nother Graduation Fellowship Week and another school year is in the books. This was something like my 40th Fellowship Week (I missed a couple here and there since 1972), but of […]

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On the Table

What’s new is old

by Keith Bassham I have grown weary with the theology popularized in social media with phrasing like, “I love Jesus, but I don’t like religion,” or “Jesus is good, but churches are bad.”

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On the Table

Easter

by Keith Bassham This Tribune has two major features in the front half. This in itself is not unusual, as our readers know. But, as editor, I departed from our usual practice in a couple […]

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A not-mean man

by Keith Bassham When I am an observer of seemingly insoluble problems — especially those that appear to be endemic in certain cultures and locales — I tend to go into quiet mode. Instead of […]

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15 for ’15

by Keith Bassham A couple of months back, the Tribune’s assistant editor, Rob Walker, came to me with an idea for the January issue. He envisioned a theme, something along the lines of “15 for […]