by Bruce Prescott | Mar 13, 2012 | Opinion
EthicsDaily.com has posted severalarticles about the March 7 meeting between goodwill Baptists and Obama administration officials. It was a good meeting. I asked a couple questions during the meeting. The most important was a question I asked of Paul Monteiro,...
by Bruce Prescott | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
News reports for the last few months have been filled with dire accounts about Iran’s growing capacity for enriching uranium, the United States’ exertion of greater pressure on Iran by strengthening sanctions and tightening an embargo on Iranian oil, and...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 21, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The remarks below are excerpted from a speech given by Bruce Prescott at a peace conference Sept. 14 in Ames, Iowa. Peace (shalom) in the Hebrew Bible means more than the mere absence of conflict and strife. It speaks about the joy, prosperity,...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 2, 2011 | Opinion
Thirty-six years ago, I enrolled for my first semester of studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. That was before the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, which made the seminary a ghost town. In the mid-1970s,...
by Bruce Prescott | Aug 18, 2011 | Opinion
I went to a town hall meeting recently at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla., held by U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.). Cole said he favored a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, and that reform of “entitlement programs” was...
