by Christa Brown | Jun 13, 2010 | Opinion
Clergy abuse survivors have been asking Southern Baptists for several years to implement denominational safeguards against clergy child molesters. Southern Baptists have refused. The requests are nothing radical. We asked for the sorts of safeguards that already exist...
by Don Gordon | Jun 13, 2010 | Opinion
The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico already surpasses the Exxon Valdez disaster that unloaded 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska in 1989. Watching the Gulf gusher spew oil makes your stomach churn. An oil slick has...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 12, 2010 | Opinion
A few months ago my good friends Betty and Raymond Hall gave me a copy of Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court. When the legendary basketball coach died on June 4, at age 99, I revisited some of his insights.In the book, Coach John...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 11, 2010 | Opinion
I can’t keep up with Facebook. For one thing, I don’t really try: it takes enough energy to keep up with the people I can see, without frequently checking to see who’s online and what they’ve been up to.Facebook used to send me an email when...
by Wendell Griffen | Jun 11, 2010 | Opinion
Most of the nation recognizes by now that the risks associated with offshore oil exploration are more real than the oil industry, lawmakers and government regulators have ever admitted. U.S. and state lawmakers and regulators either failed to understand or consciously...
by Drew Smith | Jun 11, 2010 | Opinion
The book of Acts includes two summary passages that describe the character of the first century church (Acts 2:42-45 and 4:32-37). In both references, Luke, the author of Acts, narrates that the early believers gathered for worship, prayer, fellowship and the breaking...
