by John D. Pierce | May 18, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce As summer approaches, my thoughts always turn to camp. Going to various camps was as big part of my youth: Boy Scout camp, church camp, 4-H camp and Safety Patrol camp — even though I never served as a safety patrol. If there was a sponsor to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 18, 2011 | Opinion
I’ll be ready and waiting on May 21, when radio preacher Harold Camping believes judgment day is coming. I’m not at all surprised when folks like him come up with a new date for the rapture, even though Jesus pointedly said that even he didn’t know...
by Chuck Warnock | May 18, 2011 | Opinion
The late Gerald Ford, former president of the United States, was honored earlier this month with a statue in “Statuary Hall” in the United States House of Representatives. Ford served most of his political career as a congressman from Michigan. There was...
by Martin Marty | May 18, 2011 | Opinion
The first weekend of May was supposed to belong to Osama bin Laden, and he was noticed, by those who monitor the fates of religions in media. Amazingly, he had to share space and time with a figure self-described as a historian and other-described as...
by David Kerrigan | May 17, 2011 | Opinion
I returned to Israel this month in the good company of David Coffey, now our BMS global ambassador, to join with Israel’s Baptists and celebrate their centenary. When I came here last year, most of my time was spent with Arab Christians and Muslims, both in...
by Robert Parham | May 17, 2011 | Opinion
Texas has been burning. Memphis has flooded. Tuscaloosa has been cleaning up after a tornado with 190-mile-per-hour winds smashed through Alabama. Kentucky has been drying out from almost one foot more rain in April than normal. And evangelical preachers are in...
