by Mark Johnson | Jan 29, 2009 | Opinion
Thumbing through the new Eat This, Not That: Supermarket Survival Guide, I was stopped cold by this statistic: The average piece of chicken has 266 percent more fat than it did in 1971, while its protein content has dropped by a third. Accordingly, the book suggests...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 28, 2009 | Opinion
I like puzzles. Working out a crossword or Sudoku puzzle offers a chance to kick back for a while, change gears, and do some brain stretching. I like puzzles best when I can complete them, and get a bit frustrated when I can’t.During those winter months when its...
by Larry Greenfield | Jan 28, 2009 | Opinion
Too cryptic. That’s the sense I often have when reading the Gospel of Mark. By the time the reader starts the 16th verse, Jesus has already been baptized by John in the Jordan River, survived 40 days of temptation by Satan in the wilderness with wild beasts and...
by Thomas Steagald | Jan 28, 2009 | Opinion
I promise I am not making this up … My daughter, taking a break from her pursuit of a graduate degree, is a server at the Chili’s a few miles down from our house. Like many others her age she is already pretty critical of the church and its obvious...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
NEWSGa. Baptist leaders warn of further action against church with female pastor By John PierceBaptists TodayDECATUR, Ga. — In her church newsletter column dated Jan. 23, pastor Julie Pennington-Russell of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., reported on a Jan. 7...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
Shirley Taylor of Conroe, Texas, has a passion. It surfaced in the Open Letter she sent out recently urging Baptists to rethink the idea of women in church leadership.Not knowing Shirley, I emailed her some questions. (Also, I did not know that Bob Allen of ABP was...
