by Robert Parham | Dec 2, 2009 | Opinion
President Obama told the nation last night that his strategy in Afghanistan is to make more war in order to end the war. But he never satisfactorily assured the nation of the probability of such success. As such, his expanded war fails to pass one of the rules of a...
by Ed Sunday-Winters | Dec 2, 2009 | Opinion
His name was Prevaiz Masih. He was the janitor at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, until Oct. 20. On that day, two suicide bombers attacked, one on the women’s side and the other on the men’s side of the campus. An attacker...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 2, 2009 | Opinion
From a cramped, dingy Birmingham cell, he wrote a letter to the liberal and moderate civic leaders of the community. It was a letter written to those who were supposed to be allies in the struggle for basic human rights, but instead were cautioning...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 1, 2009 | Opinion
In an address to the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship a few years ago, I noted that hometown obituaries often include the phrase that he or she was “of the Baptist faith.”Typically, the obit will say something like: “He enjoyed fishing,...
by Robert Parham | Dec 1, 2009 | Opinion
Charles Darwin was center stage last week, being celebrated by some and condemned by others. A pro-Darwin atheist accused a Christian evangelist, who rejects evolution, of being “an idiot.” The anti-Darwin Christian evangelist earlier credited Darwin with...
by Gene Davenport | Dec 1, 2009 | Opinion
Although I write this column from a biblical perspective, regular readers are aware that I usually attempt to present a view that I think might commend itself to a larger audience than simply Christians and Jews. Recent comments on some Christian talk shows about the...
