by James L. Evans | May 15, 2009 | Opinion
It is amazing how much disinformation circulates among otherwise intelligent folk, and how much of it is ardently embraced and believed. For instance, every once in a while Christians are urged to oppose a petition seeking a ban on all religious programming....
by Richard Pierard | May 15, 2009 | Opinion
A prominent Christian conservative, Richard Land, has at long last condemned torture, at least in the extreme form of waterboarding, and many in the press have heaped accolades on him for this change of heart. Baptist Press praised the president of the Southern...
by John D. Pierce | May 14, 2009 | Opinion
Rarely do we find honest public confessions from U.S. Christian leaders about the state of our faith practice. That’s why a line from Gary Gunderson’s 2004 book, Boundary Leaders, has stuck with me.Gary is a Baptist minister who has worked for many years...
by Mark Woods | May 14, 2009 | Opinion
A fairly small minority of Baptists actually attend the annual Baptist Assembly, the joint gathering of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World Mission. This year’s event was held May 1-4 in Bournemouth. While many if not most churches are represented,...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | May 14, 2009 | Opinion
In September 2008, Synagogue 3000, an organization focused on revitalizing synagogue life, commissioned a survey to measure Jewish spirituality among American Jews. The fact that they couldn’t define “spirituality” didn’t seem to faze them....
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 13, 2009 | Opinion
May is promoted by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration as “Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month,” and it’s really needed around here.I heard an alarming statistic on the news: while 20 Marines from Camp Lejeune died in Iraq in 2008, a...
