by Wendell Griffen | Aug 5, 2010 | Opinion
Based on media reports, elected officials at the highest levels of government in the United States are expressing concern ranging from apprehension to alarm about the size of the federal deficit. Some members of Congress and those who share the Tea Party concept of...
by Olu Q. Menjay | Aug 4, 2010 | Opinion
Are there ways in which a Christian may experience “exotic” places in the world without exploitation? Like Jesus, we must embody the attitude of a stranger or a host, as appropriate, in the areas we serve. In exploring the task of the stranger, we are...
by Doug Smith | Aug 4, 2010 | Opinion
The news these days is flush with accounts of the proposed sale of Virginia’s post-Prohibition monopoly of ABC stores. For generations, Virginia has controlled liquor by the bottle through a state-based network of about 300 stores that do no advertising, rarely...
by Laura Seay | Aug 4, 2010 | Opinion
The first thing you need to understand about the Kivus region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is that the tension that drives conflict there – over ethnicity, citizenship rights and land rights – developed long before the 1994 Rwandan genocide and long before the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 4, 2010 | Opinion
This past Sunday morning, knowing that I’d be leaving Honolulu for an overnight flight home that evening, I did what I had done every morning for the past nine days that I’d been in town for some family vacation and to attend the Baptist World Congress: I...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 3, 2010 | Opinion
Recently, out of the blue, our 12-year-old daughter declared: “I’m going to marry either a Greek or a Jew.”The obvious “Why?” response brought a simple explanation. Festive weddings of those traditions that she has seen in movies or on...
