by Robert Parham | Apr 27, 2006 | Opinion
The Baptist Center for Ethics is leaving behind a physical office space for a virtual space, beginning May 1. Good bye bricks and mortar. Hello telecommunications! Some may ask, what’s a virtual office? Others may want to know, why now? Still others may inquire,...
by Robert Parham | Apr 26, 2006 | Opinion
Anti-public school Southern Baptists are divided into two camps–those who offer misdirection and those who articulate a clear direction. Reacting to the Baptist Center for Ethics’ initiated pastoral letter supporting public education, Kenyn Cureton, vice...
by Robert Parham | Mar 31, 2006 | Opinion
As slavery was at the heart of the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, racism was at the heart of the beginnings of the anti-public school movement and the founding of the Christian academies in the 1960s. Denial of either engages in historical...
by Robert Parham | Mar 1, 2006 | Opinion
Christians will likely ignore the most biblically sound theme in Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ,” and they will likely embrace the most biblically faulty problems of the movie. Both offer insightful congregational leaders a teachable...
by Robert Parham | Feb 8, 2006 | Opinion
Does the present U.S. course in Iraq constitute a just war? The Christian ethic of just war theory is a time-honored method for determining whether a nation should go to war. According to this ethical method, some wars are just and some are unjust. Just wars must pass...
