by Robert Parham | Feb 14, 2003 | Opinion
President Bush is out of step with the leadership of the American religious community in his rush to war with Iraq. Despite having made faith-based initiatives a key component to his domestic policy and being the most overtly religious president in over 20 years, Bush...
by Robert Parham | Jan 28, 2003 | Opinion
Jim Wallis was factually wrong but perceptually right when he wrote that only Southern Baptists favor war against Iraq. Writing in Sojourner’s e-newsletter, Wallis said, “Except for the Southern Baptists, virtually every church body in the U.S. that has...
by Robert Parham | Jan 17, 2003 | Opinion
Instead of sleeping through this period of change, we need, as King said, “new mental responses.” New situations demand new attitudes, new ways, new resources. When Van Winkle left for his trip to the mountain, King said, he saw a picture of King George....
by Robert Parham | Jan 10, 2003 | Opinion
What do TIME magazine’s “Persons of the Year” and Moses’ birth have in common? Both involve three women who showed remarkable courage. Recall that TIME magazine named Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins as its persons of the year....
by Robert Parham | Dec 24, 2002 | Opinion
Let us pray this Christmas that those who are hungry might have bread, and that those of us who have bread might have a hunger to be charitable and to do justice of the common good. The first Christmas was about hunger and hope. Of course, the hunger part of the story...
