by Robert Parham | May 30, 2012 | Opinion
America’s expanding waistline and worsening health have triggered the call for a health campaign akin to the one waged against tobacco. “When I look at what’s going on with obesity, it reminds me of what was going on with tobacco in the ’50s,...
by Robert Parham | May 21, 2012 | Opinion
Prison reform has captured headlines, triggered partly by the death of Watergate figure Chuck Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, but mostly by legislative actions at the state level. Social justice advocates and fiscal conservatives are agreeing that...
by Robert Parham | May 15, 2012 | Opinion
Heartland Institute put up an inflammatory ad on a digital billboard in Chicago that associated those who believe in climate change with mass murderers. “The most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists,” claimed the institute’s...
by Robert Parham | May 7, 2012 | Opinion
Alex Awad spoke from Jerusalem. Sam Harrell from Nairobi. Martin Accad from Beirut. Molly Marshall spoke about Myanmar, based on a recent trip there. Wendell Griffen spoke about prison reform, albeit from his legal chambers in Little Rock, Ark. All did interviews via...
by Robert Parham | Apr 30, 2012 | Opinion
What does Romans 13 say about immigration? Nothing. Not a word. The word doesn’t even appear in the passage. Yet Romans 13 is the text of choice for those who favor anti-immigration legislation. Romans 13:1-7 says in part: “Let every person be subject to...