by Robert Parham | Feb 21, 2014 | Opinion
Sex trafficking generates an estimated $32 billion in annual profits and exploits some 21 million people globally – mostly women, children and the poor. Trafficking always creates multiple victims and harms families. An estimated 100,000 children under the age of 18...
by Robert Parham | Feb 14, 2014 | Opinion
Jesus was a maker of havoc, said the award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died from a heroin overdose. “My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting … Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!” Perhaps by “havoc,” Hoffman meant...
by Robert Parham | Feb 5, 2014 | Opinion
How do we live out practically Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:16? Remember those words in the Sermon of the Mount? They follow Jesus’ words about how his followers are “the light of the world.” Matthew 5:16 reads, “Let your light so shine...
by Robert Parham | Jan 31, 2014 | Opinion
Why does it have to be an either-or proposition for ideological pundits, political columnists and politicians? Writing some weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush’s former press secretary, framed an either-or argument on...
by Robert Parham | Jan 24, 2014 | Opinion
Obama’s presidential wink at marijuana comes when his public opinion ratings are at all-time low and with a dreadful, glassy-eyed comparison to alcohol. A BBC News headline read: “Barack Obama: ‘Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol.'” After...