by Larry Greenfield | Sep 16, 2009 | Opinion
I was a little concerned that the 24 Lutherans in the U.S. Congress (four in the Senate and 20 in the House; 15 Democrats and nine Republicans) wouldn’t get the message when they attend church this coming Sunday. That’s because, remembering how Luther...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
Pat Terry threw The Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” into the mix of his original songs during a coffeehouse concert in Macon on Sunday evening. He told of catching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 and thinking: “Now that’s what...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the seventh part of an ongoing series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. Before I went to seminary, I took one more step away from...
by Keith Herron | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
It’s not human nature for us to look outside the fence of our own lives and to see clearly “the other.” This year I’ve learned the term “the other” is recognized as anyone outside our own culture or our own world of experience. It...
by Drew Smith | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
The Gospels narrate their stories as if Jesus knew he would be put to death by Roman authorities. While the authors offer backward-looking theological interpretations of Jesus, and not necessarily fully historical reports of Jesus’ life, we can be sure that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 14, 2009 | Opinion
I’m happy for Campbell University’s law school (officially the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law), which moves into fancy new digs in downtown Raleigh this week. Moving the school from bucolic Buies Creek to the capital city was a good move for Campbell and...
