by Robert Parham | Feb 2, 2010 | Opinion
Forty days focused on Lent might keep us from a privatistic faith and lead us to a robust public faith. Look what happened to Jesus during his 40 days of prayer and fasting in the wilderness. He rejected the temptations of economic, political and religious power. He...
by Robert Parham | Feb 1, 2010 | Opinion
A newspaper blog headline – “Marx, God and Faith in the Markets” – grabbed my attention last week and introduced me to Reinhard Marx, who is unrelated to the much more famous Karl Marx, although both are connected to the German city of Trier and offer a...
by Robert Parham | Jan 27, 2010 | Opinion
Updated at 9:15 a.m. CST on Jan. 28, 2010, to include quote from David Wheeler. Faithful Oregonians ran with perseverance the race for justice, helping to defeat those opposed to tax fairness in favor of corporate selfishness and wealthy individuals, such as...
by Robert Parham | Jan 24, 2010 | Opinion
Why is the existence of God and the degree of divine engagement in the created order always such a pressing concern for the comfortable armchair debaters when disasters strike? Is the question of “why God allows the innocents to suffer” in the context of...
by Robert Parham | Jan 20, 2010 | Opinion
An EthicsDaily.com documentary airing on ABC-TV stations has drawn the attention of an NBC-TV station. On Tuesday, KPLC-TV carried a news story about “Different Books, Common Word: Baptists and Muslims.” “It has a lot of people talking, including...
