by Robert Parham | Jan 31, 2005 | Opinion
Democrats are talking at the national and local levels across the country in public forums and hushed church hallways about how their party can engage people of faith. In a column critiquing this chatter, Cal Thomas wrote: “On public policy matters, Democrats...
by Robert Parham | Jan 11, 2005 | Opinion
If we accept the premise that red states are more generous than blue states because of their religion, then how do we explain why Southern Baptists give so pitifully to the denomination’s world hunger fund? The Southern Baptist Convention’s publicity arm,...
by Robert Parham | Jan 5, 2005 | Opinion
Fundamentalist leader James Dobson reads from a small Bible, having shrunken the Christian moral agenda to the anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality issues. Puffed up from President Bush’s election, Dobson now threatens to put six Democratic senators in...
by Robert Parham | Dec 31, 2004 | Opinion
Time Magazine has selected a man or woman as the person of the year since 1927. President Bush is the 2004 recipient. Past recipients have included Mohandas Gandhi in 1930, Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939, Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and Pope John Paul II in...
by Robert Parham | Dec 23, 2004 | Opinion
Buried within the Christmas story is a subplot that needs unearthing, perhaps more now than in a long, long time. Of course, big chunks of the Christmas story are well known, and that’s part of the problem. So much of the Christmas account is so popular that one...
