Thanks, W.

President Bush’s recent discussion of faith with ABC’s “Nightline” reveals a lot less spiritual arrogance than the fundamentalist crowd that has embraced him to the end.Bush said he was “not so presumptuous as to be God” in knowing...

Artist at work no more

Greg Maddux was the greatest pitcher I ever witnessed in person — so I watched him pitch as often as possible. While Maddux and I were both working in Atlanta in the mid-through-late-’90s, my trips to the ballpark were often planned according to his schedule.My...

Parasites and politics

Politicians and parasites are sometimes mentioned in the same sentence — but usually not in a literal or positive sense.However, an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells how amazingly close one politician’s efforts have come to eliminating the...

Freedom of the press overshadowed

If this sounds nit-picky or defensive, so be it.Recently I’ve been reading through the excellent, scholarly papers presented this summer at the annual meeting of the Baptist History & Heritage Society and assembled in their Summer/Fall 2008 edition of the...

Free fun this Thursday

If you went to school in the ’70s, loved Jesus, and your parents complained about your hair — then you likely heard the Pat Terry Group perform such groundbreaking Christian music as “Same Sweet Song,” “Meet Me Here” or “I...