by Robert Parham | Apr 9, 2007 | Opinion
Baptist leaders claim they have no authority over autonomous churches to police clergy who sexually abuse children. “We believe in the autonomy of the local church,” wrote Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. “[T]he local church...
by Robert Parham | Mar 30, 2007 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention has stepped up its criticism of the National Association of Evangelicals, perhaps a surprising action given the fact that for the longest time they were conjoint cultural twins, not identical theological twins but close enough. SBC and...
by Robert Parham | Mar 28, 2007 | Opinion
Global-warming deniers argue that science is unsettled about whether human beings are the driving cause of climate change. Some say human begins are too insignificant to change climate patterns; that climate change results from natural fluctuations, not human actions....
by Robert Parham | Mar 27, 2007 | Opinion
Just war rules and claims of a just war share a common word with completely different meanings. Placing the word “just” before the word “war” doesn’t make war morally just, contrary to the feelings of pro-war American Christians. Some...
by Robert Parham | Mar 23, 2007 | Opinion
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once defined ethics as “knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Ethics is about knowing, about discernment. Ethics is about thinking carefully and seeing clearly....
