by Trey Lyon | Aug 14, 2009 | Opinion
From town hall shouting matches to million-dollar ads on the airwaves, the health care debate now finds itself in the public square, literally and technologically. Every day another news release is sent out. Interest groups marshal the troops to blanket in-boxes with...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 14, 2009 | Opinion
Can the consequences of sin occur before the actual sin takes place?I had never heard of such an idea until recently, when Jim Morse, a retired pulmonologist and good Baptist in Starkville, Mississippi, sent me an abstract of a presentation by Intelligent Design...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 13, 2009 | Opinion
In the barrage of emails received so far this week, was one from a publicist promoting a new self-published book about biblical prophecy found in “the Books of Daniel and Revelations,” as the publicist put it.(My astute friend Mark Parnell once noted that...
by Mike Parnell | Aug 13, 2009 | Opinion
Film critics and web sites can sometimes get caught up in hyperbole over certain films. “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” seems to be the victim of that exaggeration. MSNBC, for example, ran a headline declaring “G.I. Joe” as “the worst...
by Robert Parham | Aug 13, 2009 | Opinion
The F-bomb flew with frequency between two middle-aged businessmen sitting a row behind me on a flight. They weren’t arguing with each other. They were talking bitterly about their plight. They were vulgar. They were indifferent to other passengers. They were...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 13, 2009 | Opinion
I’m all for free speech. That’s a corollary to freedom of religion, something that Baptists have championed for 400 years. While favoring free speech, however, I confess that it really gobs my stopper when people abuse their right to free speech by freely...
