by Robert Parham | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
Nine days after announcing that he wanted more war in Afghanistan to end the war there, the U.S. president – without a presidential portfolio of accomplishment – accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. As if he were channeling the Christian realist Reinhold Niebuhr,...
by Robert Parham | Dec 9, 2009 | Opinion
Before the United Nation’s climate change talks started on Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark, evangelical Christians had confessed five months earlier in Kenya their sin for failing to care for God’s environment. “We confess that we have sinned. We...
by Robert Parham | Dec 8, 2009 | Opinion
When President George W. Bush spoke 10 days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, to a joint session of Congress, he made the case for war in Afghanistan. Bush gave the Afghan government an ultimatum and told the American military that the hour of war was...
by Robert Parham | Dec 2, 2009 | Opinion
President Obama told the nation last night that his strategy in Afghanistan is to make more war in order to end the war. But he never satisfactorily assured the nation of the probability of such success. As such, his expanded war fails to pass one of the rules of a...
by Robert Parham | Dec 1, 2009 | Opinion
Charles Darwin was center stage last week, being celebrated by some and condemned by others. A pro-Darwin atheist accused a Christian evangelist, who rejects evolution, of being “an idiot.” The anti-Darwin Christian evangelist earlier credited Darwin with...