by Robert Parham | Mar 20, 2009 | Opinion
Standing on the sidewalk outside the courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., on a windy morning, a deputy sheriff asked with a smile, “Is there a relationship?” I had asked him directions to a Baptist church as he eyed Cliff Vaughn, EthicsDaily.com’s managing editor and...
by Robert Parham | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
Running up the score is poor sportsmanship. At best, it’s victory without honor. At worst, it discloses the deformed soul of a coach, the bloodlust of fans and sports gone wrong. No team should ever run up the score, even if the other side did something...
by Robert Parham | Mar 11, 2009 | Opinion
Rush Limbaugh told what he thought was a joke to a cheering crowd at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative activists and politicians. In his rambling remarks televised on FOX News, Limbaugh said that when Larry King...
by Robert Parham | Mar 8, 2009 | Opinion
Americans of faith and those unaffiliated with a faith group agree that fixing the economy should be the government’s first priority, according to a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life analysis. A Pew survey found that 83 percent of white evangelical Protestants...
by Robert Parham | Mar 5, 2009 | Opinion
No Baptist woman is more deserving of the Baptist World Alliance’s human rights award than Leena Lavanya, who runs homes in India for lepers, female sex workers and children living with HIV/AIDS. The BWA announced on Tuesday that Lavanya would receive the 2009 BWA...
