by Robert Parham | Sep 25, 2003 | Opinion
Blaming the news media is the reflexive weapon of the advocates of any cause when things go badly. Writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Congressman Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) suggested that the news media “were somehow complicit” in the death of a U.S....
by Robert Parham | Sep 9, 2003 | Opinion
From the distant hill of discernment, Baylor University looks like a valley flooded with denial and deception. While the school’s former basketball coach Dave Bliss offered the most visible example of the ethic of deny and deceive, the problem engulfs the Baylor...
by Robert Parham | Sep 4, 2003 | Opinion
While on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, anti-abortion extremists and eco-terrorists share a common apocalyptic worldview—violent means justify desired ends. Speaking to reporters at the Florida State Prison the day before his scheduled execution for the...
by Robert Parham | Aug 25, 2003 | Opinion
A Southern Baptist leader is portraying the separation of church and state as a “shadowy phrase.” In his newsletter last week, Jerry Falwell defended Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, for refusing to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten...
by Robert Parham | Aug 20, 2003 | Opinion
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is no Martin Luther King, Jr. Efforts to portray the religious right’s agenda on the Ten Commandments as a kin to the civil rights movement cheapens King’s legacy and veils a conservative Christian agenda. Neither the common...
