by Robert Parham | Feb 24, 2011 | Opinion
British protesters targeted Barclays bank on Feb. 19, occupying some 50 branches and bringing international attention to a social justice campaign aimed at corporations that avoid paying taxes. Never heard of UK Uncut? What about US Uncut? Ever think about the moral...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce During my years in campus ministry, I enjoyed visits (often with students in tow) to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Ga., east of Atlanta. Despite my deep admiration for those within this monastic community, not once was I tempted to join....
by Mark Woods | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
Clare Nonhebel writes movingly in the latest edition of the Baptist Times about how she came to correspond with a prisoner on death row in an American prison. Romell Broom grew up with every imaginable disadvantage. Still, his crimes were bad enough, and he was...
by Laura Cadena | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
“I’ve learned so much about immigration from your Facebook posts,” wrote a friend on my Facebook page “I, too, have learned a lot from the articles I post,” I replied. Since I returned to Texas from Georgia, I’ve had this...
by Ircel Harrison | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spoke recently at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. His topic was “Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Changed the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 23, 2011 | Opinion
I have often heard folks describe some very difficult enterprise by saying “it’s like pulling teeth.” I have, in fact, used the expression myself. But I’m not sure I had really understood how hard pulling teeth can be. Baby teeth don’t...
