by James L. Evans | Apr 12, 2010 | Opinion
In “Parting the Waters,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the early years of the civil rights movement, Taylor Branch describes some of the differences between Dr. Martin Luther King’s goals and those of the NAACP. King, following the teachings of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 11, 2010 | Opinion
The story is troubling from the ground up. Professor Bruce Waltke, an evangelical Old Testament scholar who has contributed strongly to the field for many years, had to resign his teaching post on the Orlando campus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) because...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 9, 2010 | Opinion
The late Jerry Falwell and other Religious Right pioneers made a lot of political hay in the 1980s about the demise of American culture. One of their common scapegoats was the sensible judicial decision in the ’60s that ruled against government sponsored Bible...
by Wayne Flynt | Apr 8, 2010 | Opinion
Nothing is more exciting to a historian than living in a time when two great systems of thought collide. On one hand we have a great, animated, public debate about taxes. Outraged Tea Party folks capture images of the American Revolution and dumping British tea in...
by Mark Woods | Apr 8, 2010 | Opinion
There’s an oft-told story about Nikolai Bukharin, the Communist propagandist. Addressing a huge rally in Kiev in 1930 on the subject of atheism, he spent an hour ridiculing Christianity. It was a religion for weaklings, he ranted, morally flawed, scientifically...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 8, 2010 | Opinion
In 1922, Dr. Albert Barnes established the Barnes Foundation to preserve his significant art collection. He stipulated that his collection, housed in a mansion a few miles outside Philadelphia, never be sold, moved or loaned. But that didn’t stop the powers...
