by Juan Cole | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
10. Saudi Arabia opened its first coeducational college campus, the King Abdullah Science and Technology University. In a country where the sexes have been so separated in public that some have spoken of ‘gender apartheid,’ this move, which came from King...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 4, 2010 | Opinion
The current issue of the Christian Index, the public relations journal of the Georgia Baptist Convention, features an article praising former Southern Baptist Convention president Bobby Welch, now employed by the SBC as”Strategist for Global Evangelical...
by Bill Wilson | Jan 4, 2010 | Opinion
Awfulize. That’s the word to which my therapist friend, Paula Batts, introduced me. We were talking about how the economic crisis was rippling through the people of our congregation. We began to count the ways: economic stress for individuals and the church,...
by Mark Woods | Jan 4, 2010 | Opinion
On Christmas Eve, we marked the 95th anniversary of an event that has passed into national legend: the Christmas truce of 1914. In a few places along the Western Front, a temporary peace broke out during World War I. British and German soldiers swapped cigarettes and...
by Chuck Warnock | Jan 4, 2010 | Opinion
The end of a year brings out the list-maker in all of us. Not to disappoint you, here are the 10 trends that I’m going to be watching in 2010: 1. Mobile everything. As the mobile phone morphs into the mobile communications device, 2010 will be a breakthrough...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 2, 2010 | Opinion
During this bowl season I have enjoyed the steady diet of college football sandwiched in between commercials. However, the media timeouts have allowed me to read about one sport while watching another.Two friends gave me wonderful baseball books for Christmas. The one...
