by Robert Parham | Aug 13, 2009 | Opinion
The F-bomb flew with frequency between two middle-aged businessmen sitting a row behind me on a flight. They weren’t arguing with each other. They were talking bitterly about their plight. They were vulgar. They were indifferent to other passengers. They were...
by Robert Parham | Aug 11, 2009 | Opinion
Here are seven reasons to be bullish on the New Baptist Covenant: First is trust — trust is a critical component to a healthy Baptist community, an ingredient that has been missing for a half-century or more. When the fundamentalists took over the Southern Baptist...
by Robert Parham | Aug 5, 2009 | Opinion
Global Baptist leaders are looking beyond the 400th anniversary beginnings of Baptists in the back room of a bakery in Amsterdam in 1609 to the decades to come in the 21st century. EthicsDaily.com asked Baptists around the world about their hopes for the future and...
by Robert Parham | Aug 3, 2009 | Opinion
From Kenya to Nepal, from Australia to America, global Baptist leaders see the harmful realities of global warming and are pinning their hopes for governmental action on the United Nation’s upcoming conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. Meeting in...
by Robert Parham | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
John Upton has been nominated to be the president-elect of the Baptist World Alliance, the largest organization of global Baptists with some 37 million baptized believers. If elected at the BWA’s 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, Upton will begin a...