by Mark Johnson | Jun 5, 2008 | Opinion
I’m sitting at my desk eating a free lunch and trying to catch up on the news from an international food summit currently taking place in Rome. It is being sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Pope Benedict told delegates that hunger and...
by Mark Johnson | May 30, 2008 | Opinion
Last week, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, found it necessary to “distance” himself from two ultra-conservative pastors: John Hagee of Texas and Rod Parsley of Ohio. Probably, you couldn’t find an American who has...
by Mark Johnson | May 8, 2008 | Opinion
What is more mystifying–the things that occupy our attention or the things that should occupy our attention? On May 3 Kentuckians invited the world to toast mint juleps, place bets and cheer on horses running around a circle. Half a globe away, meanwhile, the...
by Mark Johnson | May 1, 2008 | Opinion
“Trespassers Will Be Baptized” is the creative and whimsical title of a new book written by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock Trende, known more affectionately by us at Central Baptist Church as Emy, daughter of Greg and Sharon Hancock. Emy’s book is a...
by Mark Johnson | Jan 24, 2008 | Opinion
For the greater portion of my professional life, I have felt more at home outside of my denomination than within it. I guess it can be expected when you’re from a divided family. During the Baptist divorce of the 1980s, I chose to live with the more egalitarian...
