by John D. Pierce | Sep 26, 2009 | Opinion
Never have I passed a BBQ joint (the AP Stylebook insists that “barbecue” is the proper journalistic spelling however) that did not claim to have been voted the best.One must wonder how this can be. Not one place proclaims having come in a close second.Now...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 25, 2009 | Opinion
Two stories caught my eye on Thursday. One, a press release from LifeWay Christian Resources, announced publication of a book that puts Southern Baptists’ official publisher squarely on the frenzied “we’ve got to defend America against...
by James L. Evans | Sep 25, 2009 | Opinion
In August, the national convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America met in Minneapolis. On the first day of their meeting, a freak tornado struck the downtown area. The storm toppled the steeple on the church hosting the Lutheran group. John Piper, pastor...
by Mark Johnson | Sep 25, 2009 | Opinion
Torture is not only cruel. It is also ineffective and unreliable, according to a leading neuroscientist studying the effects of the brain under conditions of extreme, repeated and prolonged stress. Writing in the journal Trends in Cognitive Science, Shane O’Mara...
by Sybil D. Smith | Sep 25, 2009 | Opinion
With all of the health-care rhetoric, I am delighted to see a renewed interest in the parish nursing dialogue. Parish nursing programs are about health ministry and congregational care ministry. Parish nursing emerged in the 1980s out of the Lutheran hospitals in the...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 24, 2009 | Opinion
Bruce Gourley, the Montana-based web editor for Baptists Today, commented to me yesterday that the stories posted at our web site “are among the most interesting … I’ve seen in a while.” Then he added: “Several of which I could not have...
