by Robert Parham | Apr 28, 2009 | Opinion
Al Gore’s motives for addressing global warming were challenged by a Tennessee congresswoman on the very day that the New York Times reported that a lobby group for the fossil fuel industry covered up in the 1990s what its own scientists were saying—greenhouse...
by Gary Snowden | Apr 28, 2009 | Opinion
If there had been any lingering doubt as to the resolve of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC’s) executive committee to continue the legal battles with the five “renegade” agencies, as they are fond of labeling them, those uncertainties...
by Chuck Warnock | Apr 27, 2009 | Opinion
Confidence in religious leaders is at an all-time low, according to the General Social Survey. Or to put it a different way, used car salesmen and members of Congress need to slide over and make room for us because only 20 percent of Americans (that’s one out of...
by Gene Davenport | Apr 27, 2009 | Opinion
When the interfaith group of which I am a part began a few years ago, most of the participants wanted to learn about each other’s religions (or, as some put it, each other’s faiths). After a couple of years of monthly meetings, it became evident that among...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 25, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists Today honored James M. Dunn with its ninth annual Judson-Rice Award April 24. More than 270 persons attended the dinner event at Bridger Field House in Winston-Salem, held between sessions of a regional New Baptist Covenant celebration meeting in Wait Chapel...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 24, 2009 | Opinion
I’ve been at Duke University April 23-24, attending a Symposium on Archaeology and the Media. The symposium grew out of a growing problem – fueled largely by an unpatrolled Internet and media outlets that need sensationalist stories to attract attention – in which...
