by Robert Parham | Feb 24, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This column appeared Wednesday in the Tennessean. Clergy for Tolerance continues to gather signatures from clergy who support the letter to presidential candidates. To read more and to sign the letter, click here. Concerned about the rising tide...
by Robert Parham | Feb 21, 2012 | Opinion
Politicians often say, when speaking about immigration, that the undocumented must “get in line” if they want to be legally in the United States. What is unclear is what they mean by the line. “Those people that are here illegally today…should...
by Robert Parham | Feb 13, 2012 | Opinion
Newsweek’s cover story trumpeted, “The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World.” The once dependable weekly news magazine has of late been slipping from news to opinion, from civil discourse to pages peppered with profanity, and from substantive...
by Robert Parham | Feb 8, 2012 | Opinion
U.S. Catholic magazine posted a jolting article about the unbalanced diet in the global community, which now has more obese people than hungry people. “In a world of want where 1.4 billion people are struggling to survive on $1.25 a day, the No. 1 global health...
by Robert Parham | Jan 30, 2012 | Opinion
No cultural myth needs to be demythologized – exposed as fraudulent – more than the “myth of the bootstrap.” The myth appears in the claim, “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps.” It is the myth of the self-made man, the one who lifts himself...
