by Jim Somerville | Oct 12, 2010 | Opinion
I found this version of an old joke that you’ve probably heard before: A man arrives at the gates of heaven. St. Peter asks, “Religion?” The man says, “Methodist.” St. Peter looks down his list and says, “Go to Room 24, but be very...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
Rev. Dr. Thomas Bland, Sr. died this past Saturday, at the age of 85. He had been sick for quite a while, but we won’t remember him for those last years of illness — we’ll remember the exemplary life he lived, and the way his teaching and his...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
To produce our new documentary, “Sacred Texts, Social Duty,” Robert Parham and I drove to Arkansas and Alabama and flew to Illinois, Virginia and Oregon. With neither time nor money for advance or follow-up visits, we got one chance to get the story. We...
by Robert Parham | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
When Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, made incendiary remarks about Islam, he said that Christians had done some terrible things, too, but that those things had really been exaggerated. “What Christians have done over the...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
Those of us who live in centers of political and financial power can, through simple neighborly actions – writing a letter to a national newspaper, buying shares in a corporation so that one can attend the annual general meeting and raise questions about that...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 9, 2010 | Opinion
Despite his overuse of acronyms, Leonard Sweet has some important things to say. My colleague Tony Cartledge interviewed the author/minister/teacher for an upcoming article in the autonomous, national news journal Baptists Today. I was particularly impressed by...
