by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Nov 1, 2007 | Opinion
“I can’t vote for a Democrat,” a man once told me. “I’m a Christian.” He spoke these two labels as if they were a set of antonyms. He could not grasp my attempts to explain that one label referred to a religion while the other...
by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Oct 15, 2007 | Opinion
President Bush recently demanded another $189 billion to extend his occupation of Iraq for another year–even as he stripped low-income children of their healthcare. The cost of funding an expanded State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP,...
by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Oct 3, 2007 | Opinion
Pastors, have you ever preached a sermon against domestic violence? Odds are you haven’t. I’ve listened to approximately 4,000 sermons and have yet to hear a pastor condemn domestic violence from the pulpit. Southern preachers prefer to pontificate on...
by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Jul 30, 2007 | Opinion
A year ago, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a resolution urging churches and parents “to investigate their public schools to determine, among other things, whether they are endangering children in their care by collaboration with homosexual...
