by Robert Parham | Sep 22, 2004 | Opinion
BEIRUT, Lebanon–Lebanon is a country of religious freedom with some restrictions, despite a relatively fresh heritage of a 15-year civil war fought along religious lines, which took some 100,000 lives. The “generally amicable relationship among religions...
by Robert Parham | Aug 6, 2004 | Opinion
Sitting in a Baptist World Alliance meeting last week, I heard a fragmentary, inspiring story about a young Baptist woman in India. Leena Lavanya met a prostitute on a bus. She urged the woman to leave prostitution. The prostitute asked how she would make a living if...
by Robert Parham | Aug 3, 2004 | Opinion
“The struggle with North American evangelical Christianity just may be that we have tried to shape the gospel to ourselves and we are finding that it is not big enough for a global world. Therefore we find it hard to discern between the ethics of the Kingdom of...
by Robert Parham | Aug 3, 2004 | Opinion
SEOUL, South Korea–The president of Africa’s most populous nation begins and closes every day praying with a Baptist minister. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is a committed Baptist who prays daily and has begun teaching a weekly Sunday school class,...
by Robert Parham | Aug 2, 2004 | Opinion
SEOUL, South Korea–What happens when the largest and wealthiest Baptist denomination walks away from global Baptists? A spunky Baptist denomination joins with the promise of rebuilding the Baptist World Alliance. The Lairam Jesus Christ Baptist Church became the...
