by Wendell Griffen | May 20, 2009 | Opinion
Almost daily it seems that the American public and wider world learn more about how people were tortured and subjected to other inhumane treatment during the Bush administration. Most recently, President Obama reversed his previous position favoring disclosure of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 20, 2009 | Opinion
It was happening more than six years ago, but that doesn’t make it any less disturbing.Newly declassified documents reveal that a series of top secret briefings prepared for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials featured photographs...
by John D. Pierce | May 19, 2009 | Opinion
1. As a point of order, ask if Louisville, Ky., was freely chosen by a planning committee — at Al Mohler’s urging — or predetermined by God before the formation of earth to be the 2009 meeting site.2. Hang around the Southwestern Seminary booth until you can identify...
by Glen Stassen | May 19, 2009 | Opinion
Shirley Bogard was an impressive teenager in the Kentucky Baptist church where I was pastor. The church awarded her its scholarship for the most deserving teenager so she could train as a nurse. She was a devoted Christian and became a super-competent nurse. ...
by Mike Parnell | May 19, 2009 | Opinion
There are rules to how thrillers work. One of them is that you have to help your audience buy into the premise of the story. Ron Howard knows how to make a good thriller, but in “Angels and Demons” he gets strapped with Dan Brown’s story of the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | May 19, 2009 | Opinion
In the gospels we encounter stories that depict some churches all the time, and all churches some of the time. Consider Luke 10:38-42 – the story of Mary and Martha. Martha rightly seeks to be hospitable to Jesus, running around on the brink of insanity while Mary...