by Robert Parham | Jul 13, 2009 | Opinion
Bonuses are always substantively wrong when organizational leaders have underperformed, failing to achieve reasonable benchmarks for success while demanding sacrifice from lower-level employees through wage cuts, reduced hours and terminations. Bonuses are...
by Robert Parham | Jul 10, 2009 | Opinion
The Norman New Baptist Covenant gathering in August is what the Atlanta New Baptist Covenant gathering in January 2008 should have been — theologically inclusive of banner-bearing Southern Baptists, politically welcoming to card-carrying Republicans and ethnically...
by Robert Parham | Jul 8, 2009 | Opinion
Distance is shrinking between Baptist and Muslim leaders in America — faster than rank-and-file members realize. On a recent Saturday morning in California, a Muslim leader spoke at the biennial gathering of the American Baptist Churches-USA. One week later in...
by Robert Parham | Jul 6, 2009 | Opinion
Hot spots for the seven deadly sins — lust, wrath, envy, sloth, lust, greed, gluttony and pride — overlap much of the Bible Belt. Mississippi is lustful. Georgia is wrathful. North Carolina is envious. South Carolina is prideful. But gluttony flares up in only a few...
by Robert Parham | Jul 1, 2009 | Opinion
Trinitarian politics is the best predictor of an individual’s votes — not the belief in Christianity’s doctrine of the Trinity but adherence to the holy alliance of biblical literalism, free-market ideology and hostility toward science. “One in...
