by Robert Parham | Apr 12, 2009 | Opinion
When President Barack Obama addressed the Turkish Parliament last Monday, stating clearly that the United States was not at war against Islam, I was in Oklahoma preparing to interview for a documentary Baptists and Muslims who have found common ground for the common...
by Robert Parham | Apr 6, 2009 | Opinion
We are witnessing a transformative period—a distant kin to the advent of the Gutenberg printing press—that has profound consequences for civic and moral engagement. Print newspapers are going out of business. Baptist and other religious newspapers are following the...
by Robert Parham | Apr 1, 2009 | Opinion
Why are American Christian fundamentalists waging a war on science? They wage war against the science of climate change. They battle stem cell research. They fight the teaching of the theory of evolution in public school science classes, treating Intelligent Design as...
by Robert Parham | Mar 27, 2009 | Opinion
Key findings from a survey of over 950 nonprofit leaders show that 31 percent of nonprofits lack enough operating cash to cover expenses for more than one month. Another 31 percent can’t cover even three months. A whopping 93 percent of “lifeline”...
by Robert Parham | Mar 24, 2009 | Opinion
Preacher Keith Thomas received six checks totaling $60,000 from a woman who had written only 10 days earlier a $25,000 personal check to his associate pastor, a man leaving the staff of First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, Fla., after only a few years of...
