by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 15, 2010 | Opinion
Baptists often squabble. That’s just the way we are. It’s in our DNA, I suppose. Sometimes we squabble face to face, sometimes in letters to the editor, sometimes in blogs. We do it because we care passionately about what we believe and our ability to...
by Robert Parham | Jan 15, 2010 | Opinion
Movie actor Denzel Washington referred positively on Thursday to “Different Books, Common Word: Baptists and Muslims” on “106 and Park,” a show on Black Entertainment Television. The Oscar-winning actor called the hour-long documentary...
by James L. Evans | Jan 14, 2010 | Opinion
Every year at the end of the year, Pat Robertson, television evangelist and founder of “The 700 Club,” holds a prayer retreat. During these annual prayer meetings, Robertson meets with God and God tells Pat what is going to happen in the coming year. Of...
by Fred Guttman | Jan 14, 2010 | Opinion
What I found most interesting about “Avatar” was its spiritual message and how the film spoke to my Jewish soul. The people of Pandora are called the Na’vi. In Hebrew, the word “navi” means “prophet.” I found myself wondering...
by Larry Greenfield | Jan 14, 2010 | Opinion
What’s a great wedding without lots of wine? That seems to be Mother Mary’s question to Son Jesus at the reception following the ceremony in Cana, which was somewhere in Galilee but we still don’t know exactly where. According to the second chapter...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 14, 2010 | Opinion
The scale of destruction and the degree of suffering caused by the massive earthquake in Haiti are too great to overstate. Local eyewitnesses and reporters struggle for words — like “unimaginable” and “sobering” — to describe the scene.Such...
