by Randall Balmer | Jul 26, 2011 | Opinion
Dear Southern Baptist Convention leaders, Please pardon my intrusion into your affairs, but I wonder if it might not be time for some adult supervision of your representative in Washington, D.C. When we last looked in on Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
There’s nothing like finding an oasis in the middle of a long journey. For Old Testament travelers, an oasis was usually found at a spring or well in the midst of a desert land, places like Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea (left), or Beersheba in the Judean desert....
by James L. Evans | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
In response to a devastating heat wave in Oklahoma, Gov. Mary Fallin has asked citizens of the state to pray for rain. “I encourage Oklahomans of all faiths to join me this Sunday in offering prayer for rain,” according to a Salon.com story. “For the...
by Drew Smith | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
One of the sad facts about Christianity in the United States is that many Christians are ignorant of the political nature of Jesus’ message. Preferring to see Jesus in only spiritual terms, and his message as only about salvation and heaven, we often miss the...
by Mark Woods | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
Things are moving so fast in the world of News Corp. and the phone-hacking scandal in Great Britain that what we write today will be out of date tomorrow. But now Rebekah Brooks has been arrested, two senior Met policemen have resigned, the British prime minister is...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 22, 2011 | Opinion
The ballet that is the Harry Potter franchise comes to its end with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” – one of the most satisfying codas in recent memory. This movie begins where Part 1 ended. Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) now owns one part of the...
