by Mark Johnson | Dec 11, 2008 | Opinion
The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is an organization of 1,400 parents and supporters who recently petitioned 24 major toy companies to limit their holiday ads aimed at children this season. Their point was a simple one. The avalanche of holiday...
by Mark Johnson | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
Can Baptist congregations still be courageous enough to respect, honor and validate the personal and moral choice of members who challenge the Christian mainstream by exercising a renewal of our commitment to the liberty of conscience? Some bishops, as illustrated by...
by Mark Johnson | Oct 30, 2008 | Opinion
In the volatile and often virulent political climate of this election cycle, followers of Jesus would do well to remember times for quiet, peaceful and graceful witness. Already, there have been some problems with early voting. In North Carolina, college students have...
by Mark Johnson | Oct 17, 2008 | Opinion
Given the tendency for public prayer to degenerate into religious grandstanding and arrogance, it’s no wonder Jesus instructed the bulk of our prayer to be accomplished in private. All last week, a group of Christians mostly associated with the two right-leaning...
by Mark Johnson | Oct 9, 2008 | Opinion
The world changed forever on July 16, 1945. Somewhere in the remote basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, the first nuclear bomb was detonated. Though this was just a test, secretly and simultaneously two other nuclear bombs were being prepared for...
