by Robert Parham | Jul 22, 2009 | Opinion
Has immigration reform gotten lost in the crush of other pressing issues and cultural happenings? In recent weeks, cable TV had an obsessive focus on Michael Jackson’s death and funeral. Other headlines and programs focused public attention on health care...
by Trey Lyon | Jul 22, 2009 | Opinion
President Obama’s recent tour of Ghana included a well-publicized visit to the Cape Coast Castle, better known as Elmina, the site where thousands – perhaps millions – of African tribal POWs and innocents were led to ancestral exile and slaughter in the...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 21, 2009 | Opinion
“If everybody’s mother let them jump off a cliff…?”Well, something like that is the patented parental response to the adolescent urge to do and be just like one’s friends. Peer pressure can be both a serious problem (leading to dangerous...
by Ircel Harrison | Jul 21, 2009 | Opinion
A recent study by Leadership Network and the Hartford Institute for Religion Research looked at the demographics of those who attend mega-churches, defined as a congregation attended by 2,000 or more each week. The study determined that almost half (44 percent) had...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 21, 2009 | Opinion
If you have not seen any of the Harry Potter movies, don’t try to jump in on this one. To understand what takes place in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” too much of what happened in the past is needed to be known to get up to speed. This...
by Aaron Weaver | Jul 21, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists as a whole have a mixed track record when it comes to the environment. Some Baptist groups, such as the American Baptist Churches-USA as well as some moderate Baptists in the South, have voiced their concern on environmental issues since the first Earth Day...
