by Robert Parham | Sep 14, 2006 | Opinion
President Bush spoke Tuesday about a “Third Awakening,” a term tied to Christian revivalism in the United States. Meeting with conservative journalists for an hour and a half in the Oval Office, the president portrayed the current war as one between good...
by Robert Parham | Sep 13, 2006 | Opinion
President Bush spoke simply and truthfully to the American people on Monday night from the Oval Office: “Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks.” He deserves a checkmark for candor. That candor is in the starkest of contrasts with the...
by Robert Parham | Sep 8, 2006 | Opinion
Democrats face “a serious God problem,” as a new Pew Research Center study kindly reported. Conducted in July, the survey found that only 26 percent of respondents identified the Democratic Party as “friendly” to religion, down three points...
by Robert Parham | Sep 7, 2006 | Opinion
The One Campaign is a celebrity-centered effort to get the United States to allocate an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to fighting global poverty and AIDS, approximately $25 billion. It has captured the imagination and backing of younger Americans, many of...
by Robert Parham | Aug 29, 2006 | Opinion
Brothers fight. That reality is as old as the biblical witness and as new as today’s sunrise. Cain murdered Abel. Ishmael and Isaac were separated only to become forefathers of endless combatants—Arabs and Jews. Jacob tricked, fled and feared Esau. Joseph and...
