by Robert Parham | Feb 16, 2007 | Opinion
According to a National Journal poll, 87 percent of Republican congressmen reject the scientific consensus that the causes of global-warming are man-made. At a congressional hearing on the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rep. Dana...
by Robert Parham | Feb 12, 2007 | Opinion
When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced his presidential candidacy on a bitterly cold Saturday in Springfield, Ill., he preached a trial sermon, similar to those given in some Protestant traditions where a prospective minister lays out his credentials, identifies...
by Robert Parham | Feb 5, 2007 | Opinion
The Bible spoke first about humans guarding garden Earth from harm, but Bible listeners did not hear. The Bible said God entrusted us with the assignment to be responsible for the earth, but Bible interpreters did not act. The Bible said human beings were the crowning...
by Robert Parham | Jan 29, 2007 | Opinion
The new Baptist covenant group faces no greater challenge than the Bible, specifically the chosen text of Luke 4:18-19, around which we will organize the 2008 celebratory gathering. That text makes all other issues pale in comparison. Explaining forthrightly the...
by Robert Parham | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
Baptists are much more than Southern Baptists, who are more southern than Baptist, more exclusive than inclusive, more theocratic than democratic and more negative than positive. The perception of Baptists as the anti-everything people is one reason that good-will...
