by Robert Parham | Mar 10, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists are in a winter of discontentment. Isolation, alienation and division appear everywhere. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is reportedly feeling isolated and alienated from many in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)...
by Robert Parham | Feb 17, 2015 | Opinion
The man and the war are mostly forgotten. The war cost upward of 2 million civilian lives in less than three years, many from starvation and others from government aircrafts bombing civilian targets. The man was a Southern Baptist missionary, Bryant Durham. He stayed...
by Robert Parham | Feb 3, 2015 | Opinion
The gap between the super rich and everyone else continues to expand. “In 2014, the richest 1 percent of people in the world owned 48 percent of global wealth,” a January 2015 Oxfam report said. The remaining 52 percent was “shared between the other...
by Robert Parham | Jan 21, 2015 | Opinion
2014 was the Earth’s warmest year on record, announced a U.S. government agency last week. “The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2014 was the highest among all years since record keeping began in 1880. The December combined...
by Robert Parham | Jan 12, 2015 | Opinion
Americans are pessimistic. Americans are pessimistic about the White House and Congress making progress addressing pressing problems. Americans are pessimistic about the future of their children’s economic well-being. Americans are less optimistic about the...