by Marion Aldridge | Jun 1, 2010 | Opinion
Even Baby Jesus was a threat to Herod. When money, tradition, power and privilege are threatened, there will be a response of retaliation. Babies may not be brutalized, as they are in this episode in Matthew 2, but when power is challenged, bad things will happen to...
by Sara Powell | Jun 1, 2010 | Opinion
“Hoping Liberia: Stories of Civil War from Africa’s First Republic” is the title of Michael Helms’ 2009 book on Liberia that came out of a mission trip to that country when he was pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Moultrie, Ga. When Olu...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 31, 2010 | Opinion
Somewhere on a battlefield in the hill country north of what would later be called Jerusalem, a band of Israelite men finally tired of chasing a contingent of Philistine soldiers who were, uncharacteristically, running away from them. Their flight, according to the...
by Laura M. Rector | May 31, 2010 | Opinion
Efforts at both educational and immigration “reforms” in Arizona have rightly brought about protests of both institutionalized racism and personal prejudice in many Americans’ thoughts and actions. Others remain unconvinced though, particularly when...
by Michael Ruffin | May 31, 2010 | Opinion
Memorial Day is here. Independence Day follows close behind. I confess that I have spent quite a bit of time pondering patriotism’s too frequent mutation into nationalism and jingoism under the influence of fear, arrogance and xenophobia. I am still troubled by...
by Douglas Sharp | May 31, 2010 | Opinion
A byproduct of the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church may be that a keen eye is now being increasingly focused on Protestant churches. Make no mistake about it: The sexual abuse of children is a sin, unequivocally and indefensibly. And it is a social,...
