by Robert Parham | Oct 26, 2010 | Opinion
Denial of climate change is an article of faith in the Tea Party, according to a New York Times news story. The news report cited a New York Times/CBS News Poll that found that only 14 percent of Tea Party adherents think global warming is a problem, compared to 49...
by Robert Parham | Oct 22, 2010 | Opinion
The river of Jesus’ baptism now flows with human sewage. Who would have imagined that one of the world’s most holy rivers, a river referenced in the Bible and revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, would be so defiled that an environmental group would...
by Robert Parham | Oct 19, 2010 | Opinion
Jimmy Carter walked briskly into the Zaban Room at The Carter Center last Tuesday afternoon, shook hands with invitees and invited participants to be seated. We were there for a planning meeting of the 2011 New Baptist Covenant (NBC) gathering. Carter listened...
by Robert Parham | Oct 14, 2010 | Opinion
Our culture needs its collective mouth washed out with soap. The N-word, the F-bomb, the GD-punctuation, the misuse of Jesus’ name, the misappropriation of the word “Christ” as an exclamation point, the BS-expletive – all flood the public square. ...
by Robert Parham | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
When Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, made incendiary remarks about Islam, he said that Christians had done some terrible things, too, but that those things had really been exaggerated. “What Christians have done over the...