by Robert Parham | Jan 6, 2010 | Opinion
Every call and every email received has been exceedingly positive in response to our hour-long documentary, “Different Books, Common Word,” that began airing Sunday on ABC-TV stations across the country. An older woman, a Mississippian, called Monday....
by Stephen Copley and Pat Bodenhamer | Jan 6, 2010 | Opinion
“Taxes are good,” is not a statement that we hear very often. Most of the time we hear just the opposite. If there has ever been one subject so hotly debated and much hated, it would be taxes. The fact of the matter is we all benefit from our tax system....
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 6, 2010 | Opinion
In April 2007, New York Times columnist David Brooks interviewed a presidential hopeful named Barack Obama. At one point, Brooks asked if Obama ever read the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. “I love him. He’s one of my favorite philosophers,” was the...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
My friend, Kyle Matthews, was showing me around the beautiful facilities of the First Baptist Church of Greenville, S.C., just before Christmas. When we came up on this columbarium, I snapped a quick photo.Driving away it dawned on me that this was the third Baptist...
by John Weaver | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
While we celebrated Christmas in our churches, those returning from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen might rightly conclude that self is king, mammon is god, and nature weeps. There was a failure to agree on a legally binding deal to reduce...
by Monty Self | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
The Stars and Stripes recently reported that seven soldiers – three men and four women – were being reprimanded for violating the pregnancy ban in northern Iraq. In early November, the ban was added to General Order No. 1 by Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III, commander of...
