by Robert Parham | Nov 30, 2009 | Opinion
Humanists, atheists, Christian fundamentalists and cable talk-show hosts are again launching verbal grenades in the Christmas wars. Last year’s outbreak was so successful that the American Humanist Association (AHA) has launched another holiday campaign with...
by Robert Parham | Nov 23, 2009 | Opinion
Before reading the latest moral declaration from the Christian Right about their troubled souls and moral priorities, I e-mailed early last Friday morning a reporter about the statement. I wrote that if these leaders’ “hierarchy of issues” were...
by Robert Parham | Nov 20, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part editorial on interfaith dialogue. Interfaith dialogue is difficult for many Baptists. By theology, most Baptists think they are right and everybody else is either wrong or misguided. By tradition, we are a...
by Robert Parham | Nov 19, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part editorial on interfaith dialogue. Too many conservative evangelicals are so uncomfortable with interfaith dialogue that they dismiss it as inconsequential. Speaking at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)...
by Robert Parham | Nov 15, 2009 | Opinion
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted last week to deny churches the opportunity to give through the convention to the Baptist Center for Ethics, thereby ending an almost 20-year partnership. No state convention executive or elected leader ever called...
