by John D. Pierce | Sep 22, 2009 | Opinion
The number of female pastors in the U.S. has doubled over the past 10 years according to research by the Barna Group. A Religion News Service story on the report is posted at Baptists Today. As expected, the growth has occurred primarily in mainline Protestant...
by Robert Parham | Sep 22, 2009 | Opinion
“Gran Torino” is the best movie I have seen this year, maybe the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s about death and redemption, the loss of an American way of life and the purchase for immigrants of a new way of life. It’s...
by Jan Chapman | Sep 22, 2009 | Opinion
For those of us who live in a world of accessible health care, the phrase “30 million uninsured Americans” does not really compute. It’s fairly easy to assign that statistic to the same space in the brain that holds the amount of the federal deficit,...
by Drew Smith | Sep 22, 2009 | Opinion
In 1981, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared that the opening day of its annual session would be recognized as International Peace Day. Twenty years later, in 2001, the assembly determined that Sept. 21 of each year would be known as International...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 21, 2009 | Opinion
I don’t recall ever seeing a sitting president work so hard to pursue the agenda that got him elected: last week Barack Obama made several campaign-style stops to promote the health care reform he believes to be vitally important, and on Sunday he managed to appear on...
by Trey Lyon | Sep 21, 2009 | Opinion
“In one sense the opulence of American life has served to perpetuate Jeffersonian illusions about human nature. For we have thus far sought to solve all our problems by the expansion of our economy. This expansion cannot go on forever and ultimately we must face...
