by Robert Parham | May 2, 2009 | Opinion
The Baptist General Convention of Texas responded to the swine flu epidemic by postponing a state championship Bible drill. Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth e-mailed members asking them to stay home on Sunday if they had symptoms. Arkansas’ Ouachita...
by Robert Parham | Apr 28, 2009 | Opinion
Al Gore’s motives for addressing global warming were challenged by a Tennessee congresswoman on the very day that the New York Times reported that a lobby group for the fossil fuel industry covered up in the 1990s what its own scientists were saying—greenhouse...
by Robert Parham | Apr 22, 2009 | Opinion
An award-winning documentary and a panel of Baptists of color will headline the Baptist Center for Ethics’ annual luncheon at this year’s General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship scheduled for July 2 in Houston, Texas. BCE will offer a...
by Robert Parham | Apr 20, 2009 | Opinion
A Southern Baptist creationist without a college degree is listed as one of the 700 prominent scientists who object to the statement that the scientific community has reached a consensus about man-made global warming. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) issued a report that...
by Robert Parham | Apr 15, 2009 | Opinion
Rick Warren has a pattern of political activism followed by political denial of activism. But this time—on Proposition 8—Warren has been caught on videotape voicing contradictory positions, supporting an anti-gay marriage initiative in California and then saying he...
