by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 13, 2009 | Opinion
This past year, for the first time in many years, I didn’t attend the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC). I didn’t feel particularly welcome, for one thing: messengers at the previous year’s meeting had voted to...
by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 13, 2009 | Opinion
Roland Emmerich. The German director’s name is synonymous with motion-picture spectacle. “Independence Day” in 1996. “Godzilla” in 1998. “The Day After Tomorrow” in 2004. Destruction is his wheelhouse, and he brought his...
by Mike Parnell | Nov 13, 2009 | Opinion
It’s been said that before one hears the good news, one needs to hear the bad news. It’s only in hearing the bad news that one can truly hear what the good news has to say, embrace it and change. “A Christmas Carol” is the familiar story of...
by Michael Ruffin | Nov 13, 2009 | Opinion
Were I to give you a full accounting of my popular musical allegiances over the years, you would likely suggest that I should hang my increasingly hairless head in shame. The first musical act that I took seriously was The Monkees – and they were not even a serious...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 12, 2009 | Opinion
Constant efforts by church leaders to meet their members’ personal tastes for worship styles and times can be exhausting. Tom Long, professor of preaching at Emory’s Candler School of Theology and author of Beyond the Worship Wars, has some good insights...
by Robert Parham | Nov 12, 2009 | Opinion
Demonization of American Muslims is under way among conservative American Christians who think wrongly that President Obama is showing his true colors as a Muslim and Muslims shouldn’t be in the military. But this is not the first time that anxiety within...
