Browse Archives
Check out news and opinion posts across the years
History is a Jigsaw Puzzle
Up until three years ago the lands of Iraq and Iran would have been hard for many Americans to find on a world map. We knew next to nothing about their history, language and culture. We only knew they had a dictator of...
Social Change and the Supreme Court
While it would not appear at first glance that there is a connection between legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks and Samuel Alito, President Bush's nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, I believe there is a...
Conservative Christians Voice Qualms About Cervical Cancer Vaccine
A vaccine against cervical cancer, with potential to save the lives of 3,700 women in the United States and 250,000 worldwide each year, could become available as early as next year. It worries conservative Christian...
A Foundation to Withstand Life’s Storms
Lightning may never strike twice in the same location, but hurricanes do. I was too young at the time to have much recollection of our family's 1969 trip to the Southern Baptist Convention. Today, my brother Tommy and...
Religious Leaders Commend Rice for Leadership in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
National leaders of 21 Christian churches and church-related agencies on Monday signed a letter encouraging Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her active engagement in peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians....
‘The Way Into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide’
As the title suggests, this book from C.S. Lewis expert Peter Schakel isn't just about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which is getting most of the public attention on account of the upcoming movie. Rather, The...
Southern Baptist Leaders React to Book by Jimmy Carter
Not surprisingly, former President Jimmy Carter is finding few fans of his latest book among leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. In Our Endangered Values, his 20th book, the 39th president of the United...
‘Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price’
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald, previously best known as the man behind "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," is probably going to be known as the man behind "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" for a while....
Scholars Challenge ‘Forsaken Roots’ Argument
A popular Web site that argues America has forsaken its Christian roots contains historical inaccuracies and distortions of quotations from the Founding Fathers, two First Amendment scholars contend in an editorial in...
A Rabbi Reflects on the Baptist Funeral of Soldier
Recently a fellow rabbi and I attended the funeral of LCPL Andrew David Russoli, 21. The service took place at College Park Baptist Church in our city of Greensboro, N.C. We thought we were going for two reasons. The...
See Happiness Through Others’ Difficult Lives
True happiness can come to us in our difficult times, if we look for it in others. Such was the philosophy of one of China's greatest writers, who died last month. Ba Jin was the pen name of Li Feigan, who died in...
SBC Conservative Leader Adrian Rogers Dies
Three-time Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, whose 1979 election sparked a revolutionary leadership change in America's largest Protestant denomination, died early Tuesday of complications from...
A Rabbi Reflects on the Baptist Funeral of Soldier
Recently a fellow rabbi and I attended the funeral of LCPL Andrew David Russoli, 21. The service took place at College Park Baptist Church in our city of Greensboro, N.C. We thought we were going for two reasons. The...
CBF Leader Highlights ‘Common Humanity’ of Different Faiths
To live together, various faith communities must learn to celebrate what they share in common instead of just focusing on differences, a moderate Baptist leader told an interfaith gathering last month in Atlanta....
Giving Life After Death
This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of National Donor Sabbath. Since 1996 faith communities throughout the nation have observed the opportunity to discuss organ donation over the weekend that falls two weeks...
Group Counters Christian Zionist Influence on U.S. Policy Toward Israel
The strongest opposition in the United States to President Bush's "roadmap for peace" in Israel comes, ironically, from some of his strongest supporters--the religious right. Charles Kimball, author of When Religion...
‘Zathura: A Space Adventure’
Walden Media and Walt Disney aren't the only ones with a movie about kids who get transported to another world when they find a bit of magic in their house. With "Zathura: A Space Adventure" from Columbia Pictures...
Baptist Church Grieves Death of Marine
The war in Iraq turned into personal tragedy on Nov. 7 for College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., when it buried a 21-year-old Marine killed in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Andrew David Russoli was one of three Marines,...
To Be or Not to Be Tax Exempt
All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., is in hot water with the IRS. On Oct. 31, 2004—the Sunday before Election Day last year, the former rector of the church, Rev. George F. Regas, preached a vigorous...
Author Feiler Delivers New Illustrated Book, PBS Series
One of the foremost commentators on religion and its Middle Eastern roots is unveiling two projects he hopes will do for the eye what his prose has done for the ear. Author Bruce Feiler, whose Walking the Bible,...
Faith Plays Role in Virginia Governor Race
Political strategists took a note from Tuesday's Virginia governor's race likely to be replayed next year in midterm elections and the presidential race in 2008: Democrats can talk about faith, too. "We proved that...