by James L. Evans | May 4, 2012 | Opinion
The French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 1600s, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” He was right then, and he is still right today. The obvious example we have to illustrate the truth of...
by James L. Evans | Apr 27, 2012 | Opinion
If you ever have the opportunity to visit Wingate University in Wingate, N.C., you will most likely see the Ethel K. Smith Library. In the early 1980s, I had the privilege of serving as Ethel’s pastor. I was a seminary student at Southeastern Baptist Theological...
by James L. Evans | Apr 20, 2012 | Opinion
One of my earliest mentors and teachers was a biology professor in my senior year of high school. His name was Mr. Butler. In those days, I was something of a class clown. We had moved so many times in the course of my dad’s Navy career that one of the ways I...
by James L. Evans | Apr 13, 2012 | Opinion
Grover Norquist, a darling of the religious and political right, quipped one time that government should be reduced to a size that it can be drowned in a bathtub, and then drowned. Without a doubt this is one of the most simplistic, disingenuous remarks ever made...
by James L. Evans | Apr 6, 2012 | Opinion
The experience of Easter worship in many churches is entirely too predictable. Preachers will take the various resurrection stories and use them as proof of the reality of the risen Christ. We will be assured that the information is trustworthy, and therefore doubt is...
