by Robert Parham | Jan 8, 2007 | Opinion
Three days after Christmas the Bush administration backtracked on global warming when it proposed under a court-ordered deadline to place the polar bear on the threatened-species list due to the rapid loss of Arctic ice. While the Secretary of the Interior Department...
by Robert Parham | Jan 4, 2007 | Opinion
President Bush has reportedly decided to tell the nation next week that winning in Iraq means a massive troop surge and sacrifice. The term “surge” means sending upwards of 30,000 more American military personnel to Iraq for an unspecified time and...
by Robert Parham | Jan 2, 2007 | Opinion
How many more American troops and Iraqi civilians must die before America’s churches speak a prophetic word to President Bush that violence only begets more violence and more violence is not an acceptable path forward? How long before American Christians...
by Robert Parham | Dec 29, 2006 | Opinion
Converting Muslims to Christianity is not the key to stability in Iraq, converting American Christians to Christianity is. Before Christmas, the blogosphere drew attention to a Republican congressman who said that converting Iraqi Muslims to Christianity was the key...
by Robert Parham | Dec 26, 2006 | Opinion
When I first went to work for a denominational agency in Nashville, I encountered two wasteful patterns that forever set me in another direction. One was individual sloth. The other was organizational misdirection. I observed that some religious bureaucrats were among...
