by Natalie Wigg-Stevenson | Feb 18, 2009 | Opinion
The narrative inspiring Mark Osler’s book, Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment, is compelling. In 2001, while teaching at a conservative Christian law school, this former prosecutor re-conducted Christ’s trial under Texas...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 18, 2009 | Opinion
A review of Hardball Religion: Feeling the Fury of Fundamentalism by Wade Burleson (2009, Smyth & Helwys Publishing)By John PierceExecutive EditorBaptists TodayConservative Southern Baptist pastor and popular blogger Wade Burleson details his recent three-year...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 18, 2009 | Opinion
Living with stress, I’m convinced, is a good thing — the only people who have no stress are dead.Stress can be hard on you, and some types of stress are much harder than others. But, as a series of articles in the Feb. 23 Newsweek magazine illustrates, the...
by Robert Parham | Feb 18, 2009 | Opinion
With a growing percentage of Americans avoiding wedlock, the federal government has decided to fund a $5 million media campaign to promote marriage, beginning this month. That’s right, a whopping $5 million. The federal government apparently doesn’t think...
by Mike Parnell | Feb 18, 2009 | Opinion
Movies fill a screen with images, which flash in front of our eyes and create an emotional response. When movies work, they work more on the visual level than on any other. “Coraline” is the most visually stimulating movie I have seen. It ranks with any that Pixar or...
by Joe Phelps | Feb 17, 2009 | Opinion
My eyes wandered beyond the sermon text to an addendum to the healing story of Naaman the leper by Elisha, the prophet of God. When Elisha refused payment for the healing, a servant decided to cash in. He caught up with Naaman and fibbed that Elisha reconsidered and...
