by Robert Parham | Mar 23, 2012 | Opinion
Is Rush Limbaugh’s vulgarity worse than Bill Maher’s vulgarity – or vice versa? Well-known to most are the highly offensive words that Limbaugh used to discredit female Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke. She spoke about her school’s...
by Robert Parham | Mar 19, 2012 | Opinion
Before a delegation of some 60 Baptists metrecentlywithWhiteHouseofficials, White House officials apparently were unfamiliar with the term “goodwill Baptists.” Why should that be a surprise? Most Baptists are unfamiliar with the idea of “goodwill...
by Robert Parham | Mar 12, 2012 | Opinion
No Baptist speaks for another Baptist, I said, at the conclusion of the three-hour dialoguesession between White House officials and a delegation of 60 goodwill Baptists. Then, speaking for myself, I told Paul Monteiro, associate director of the Office of Public...
by Robert Parham | Mar 5, 2012 | Opinion
Almost a quarter century after a Southern Baptist Convention agency board member called Martin Luther King Jr. a fraud and said apartheid was “beneficial,” the SBC may well elect its first African-American president: Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue...
by Robert Parham | Feb 29, 2012 | Opinion
The left-leaning Center for American Progress posted a list of 10 things folk should know about religion that very well may influence the 2012 elections. First is that “all major religious groups favor a more equitable distribution of wealth.” A link to...
