by Joe Phelps | Mar 12, 2008 | Opinion
A picture of a handsome 16-year-old black student shot to death in a parking lot recently ran across the top of the page of our daily newspaper. Another recent story described gun brandishing and a near-killing nearby. What is this, “Gunsmoke?” A summary...
by Joe Phelps | Feb 5, 2008 | Opinion
Fifteen thousand pastors and laypersons representing churches across the land met last week in Atlanta under the banner of the New Baptist Covenant to offer a progressive voice for Baptists. All Baptists in North America were invited, and every major group signed on...
by Joe Phelps | Feb 5, 2008 | Opinion
Fifteen thousand pastors and laypersons representing churches across the land met last week in Atlanta under the banner of the New Baptist Covenant to offer a progressive voice for Baptists. All Baptists in North America were invited, and every major group signed on...
by Joe Phelps | Nov 29, 2007 | Opinion
‘Tis the season to go crazy.’ Tis also the season for people like me to rant about how crass and commercialized the Christmas season is, how overwrought and high strung we’ve become, and how we all need to resolve, in the words of the Dude, to...
by Joe Phelps | Oct 24, 2007 | Opinion
I feel so cliche coming home from a visit to Germany with scores of pictures of the magnificent kirches, churches, at the center of every hamlet and city across Deutschland. I was one of the thousands of visitors from around the world each day (except, curiously,...
