by Michael Ruffin | Jun 28, 2010 | Opinion
On the last night of my Panama City Beach, Fla., vacation, I sat on the balcony of our borrowed sixth-floor condominium watching the sun set on my time of rest – and perhaps on a way of life that is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and, yes, Chevrolet. I...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 28, 2010 | Opinion
The spring 2010 issue of Duke Divinity School’s Divinity Magazine contains an interesting report about clergy health (p. 4). Research from a United Methodist Church (UMC) Clergy Health Initiative suggests that UMC clergy in North Carolina suffer from more...
by Robert Parham | Jun 27, 2010 | Opinion
Anti-immigration forces have taken a page out of the Bible in their political power play: Punish the babies. That’s right: Make infants of undocumented aliens in the United States cannon fodder in the war over immigration. The anti-immigration faction with...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 27, 2010 | Opinion
Freedom, as St. Paul reminds us, has its temptations – serious ones, in fact. Like the temptation to bite, devour and consume one another found in Galatians 5:15. That’s pretty much where we are in the United States, now that we’re no longer flush with...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 25, 2010 | Opinion
“We need more money and more young people.”This week I’ve met with a church staff, some of my own directors, the Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society board and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council. I could have gone to a dozen more...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 25, 2010 | Opinion
“Passionate moderate” may sound like an oxymoron, but a call to greater passion has been a recurring theme at this year’s General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. When the group coalesced as an alternative to the increasingly...
