by Ircel Harrison | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
Very often we use words interchangeably that have very distinctive meanings. As I have started doing clergy coaching with Pinnacle Leadership Associates, I have found that friends tend to confuse three terms ”counseling, mentoring and coaching. Counseling is a healing...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
In January 2008 I received an e-mail from a distraught former student informing me that Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid, a Christmas gift she had given her grandfather, was dismissed as a misguided treatise and unfair criticism of Israel. A...
by Robert Parham | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
American seminaries and divinity schools across the theological spectrum are in financial trouble, according to news reports, open letters and blogs about budget cuts and staff layoffs. Just as troubling is the silence from schools of theology about the state of their...
by Mark Woods | Jan 26, 2009 | Opinion
It is not at all surprising that as The Baptist Times goes to press, the eyes of the world are fixed on Washington. It would be churlish – and foolish – to wish to deny Barack Obama his triumph, or to refuse to recognise the validity of the wave of emotion...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jan 26, 2009 | Opinion
While taking a walk on Dec. 24, 2007, just before we were to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace and Love, the unprovoked verbal assault There goes a terrorist was hurled. We belonged to the same Sunday school class; we’d been colleagues for 34 years; our...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 26, 2009 | Opinion
Terrorism, as a political tool, is abhorrent to all people of good will. Civilized nations have a moral obligation to eliminate the use of terror. We as a nation, due to our rhetoric of expounding the virtues of democracy, are held to a higher standard in ending the...
