by Mike Smith | Sep 14, 2009 | Opinion
Let’s start with a truth. Much of what passes for debate about health care amounts to nothing more than pundits and people shouting slogans at each other. Their talking points could not pass muster in a high school debate class, where one is required to build a...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 14, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the sixth part of an ongoing series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. My first encounter with a “liberal” theologian came when...
by James L. Evans | Sep 14, 2009 | Opinion
One of the most popular biblical translations among evangelical conservatives is the New International Version. Introduced in 1978, and immediately endorsed by Billy Graham, the NIV has sold more than 300 million copies. As of 2011, the NIV is scheduled for an update....
by John D. Pierce | Sep 12, 2009 | Opinion
Next weekend former students of the late LSU campus minister Frank Horton will return to Baton Rouge to celebrate his influential life. His son-in-law Bob Guffey (pastor of First Baptist Church of Conway, S.C.) describes the event as an “ultimate...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 11, 2009 | Opinion
This is not a new subject, but one that came to mind recently when I had a hard time finding gasoline that wasn’t blended with 10 percent ethanol: does the ethanol-laced product reduce your gas mileage as much as mine?I’m one of those folks who always...
by Robert Parham | Sep 11, 2009 | Opinion
Coming, perhaps, to a sanctuary near your home is a new version of the Bible, one released by the National Rifle Association. It has a camouflaged cover, quotations from some of America’s great patriots at the beginning of each book of the Bible, and a bookmark...
