by Robert Parham | Sep 29, 2008 | Opinion
Atheists and theists, the God-despisers and the God-fearers, the faithless and faithful, are locked in combat over public opinion. For a long time, atheists were seen at best as wacky, thanks to Madalyn Murray O’Hair. That is no longer the case due to books and...
by Robert Parham | Sep 26, 2008 | Opinion
President Bush told an anxious and angry American public on Wednesday that the nation faced “a serious financial crisis.” In a structurally sound speech devoid of poetry and short on hope, Bush said that “these are not normal circumstances,”...
by Robert Parham | Sep 24, 2008 | Opinion
Evangelicals are not shifting to presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a new survey from a prominent political scientist who shared his results last week at the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association. The findings counter the repeated...
by Robert Parham | Sep 22, 2008 | Opinion
President Bush deserves a word of thanks from goodwill Baptists for his inclusive approach to one of the three religions in the Abrahamic faith tradition. For the past eight years, he has hosted in the White House an annual Iftaar dinner, a meal after sunset that...
by Robert Parham | Sep 19, 2008 | Opinion
An action thriller ripping across three continents has a storyline about the son of an Islamic cleric, who displays admirable piety and wrestles with moral ambiguity, and the son of a Baptist preacher, who discloses a minimalist faith. One seeks God’s will; the...
