by Robert Parham | Oct 11, 2006 | Opinion
Did the Tennessee Republican Party intentionally darken a picture of Democratic Senate nominee Harold Ford, an African-American, in a fund-raising letter? Three versions of the same photograph of Ford, who is a Baptist, appear side-by-side on this Tennessee blog site....
by Robert Parham | Oct 9, 2006 | Opinion
Former Republican Senator John Danforth rejected the idea of a Christian political agenda in his new book. The proposition is advocated by the Christian Right. “Christianity does not give us an agenda for American politics,” Danforth wrote in Faith and...
by Robert Parham | Sep 26, 2006 | Opinion
Former Republican Senator John Danforth has done what very few Republican Party leaders are willing to do–take on the Christian Right and criticize their own party for allowing itself to be taken over by the Christian Right. In a new book, Faith and Politics,...
by Robert Parham | Sep 21, 2006 | Opinion
No political race is more telling about state of race relations within American Christianity than the one in Tennessee, where an African-American Democratic congressman is running for a U.S. Senate seat against a white Republican former mayor, who was pro-choice until...
by Robert Parham | Sep 18, 2006 | Opinion
Those of us who know Jesus know James Dobson is no Jesus. Jesus warned against the hypocrisy of faulty faith: “Woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint … and neglect justice.” “Woe” was a word of censorship that Jesus placed here on religious...
