by Robert Parham | Jun 9, 2009 | Opinion
Inerrancy of the Bible was a crystal-clear battle cry in the fundamentalist war launched in 1979 to take over the Southern Baptist Convention from the alleged “liberals,” but it has failed to rally the factious theological conservatives and to deliver the...
by Robert Parham | Jun 5, 2009 | Opinion
President Barack Obama spoke as a public theologian in Cairo, one who is confident enough in his own Christian faith to value Islam and to voice the common ground shared by those from the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. In a way, Obama gave muscular wings to the...
by Robert Parham | Jun 2, 2009 | Opinion
The last place one would expect to meet the father of Jesus is in a Washington, D.C., office shoehorned between the Supreme Court and the Dirksen Senate Office Building. But meet him I did. And he is a Muslim. Yes, the father of Jesus is a Muslim. Sayyid Mohammed...
by Robert Parham | May 27, 2009 | Opinion
People of faith should support “The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that gives concreteness to the twin moral imperatives of care for creation and care for the poor. The ambitious and...
by Robert Parham | May 21, 2009 | Opinion
Al Gore’s North American summit in Nashville began on May 14 with a laser-focused address on the ethics and equity of climate change, really the ethics of the inequity of global warming’s impacts on the marginalized. It is a word the vast majority of...
