by John D. Pierce | Apr 27, 2010 | Opinion
As the new Newseum was being planning on prime real estate between the Capitol and the White House in Washington, D.C., Freedom Forum CEO Charles Overby wondered if his big idea of having the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution displayed prominently would ever...
by Bill Wilson | Apr 26, 2010 | Opinion
One of the most precarious tasks a preacher faces is that of being a prophet. The role of prophet is one that many ministers feel a deep ambivalence toward. All preachers know that relevant preaching must address the great issues of the day and offer a word from the...
by Ed Hogan | Apr 26, 2010 | Opinion
I am doing a sermon series on the “Hard Sayings of Jesus” on Sunday mornings. Many of those hard sayings occur in Matthew 24-25. Jesus says things like: “There will be wars and rumors of wars. Nations will rise against nations. There will be famines...
by Nathan Napier | Apr 26, 2010 | Opinion
Some of our current political tension is best understood within the context of Jesus versus Thomas Jefferson. Once the Jesus-Jefferson dynamic is considered, we see that much of the vitriol – surrounding the recent health care debate, for example – is more about...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 26, 2010 | Opinion
Last Friday night, with a 13-year-old son who likes such music, I attended my first rock concert, a student activities event at Campbell University headlined by a group called “Skillet.” It was quite an experience, one that I can call on for comfort the...
by Robert Parham | Apr 25, 2010 | Opinion
The U.S. Army made the right decision to prohibit Franklin Graham from speaking at a prayer event scheduled in May at the Pentagon, an event organized by a group of mostly Christian Right leaders of which Graham is the honorary chair. The prohibition resulted from...