by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 20, 2008 | Opinion
Today a funeral service celebrates the life of J. Marse Grant, who died October 17 after a long period of declining health. Grant was 88. Despite suffering from diabetes most of his adult life, he controlled it with a careful diet and managed to become one of Baptist...
by Thomas Steagald | Oct 20, 2008 | Opinion
The gospel’s adversaries are not interested in honest discussion or answers, but in trying to impugn or divide so as to marginalize believers. The Pharisees, who were religious, and the Herodians, who most probably were not (they were politicos, supporters of...
by Keith Herron | Oct 20, 2008 | Opinion
Did anyone know just how incurious the president could be when he marched into the White House eight years ago? When asked to name a mistake he might have made in his first term he couldn’t think of one. Even today there seems to be no sense of acceptance of how...
by Robert Parham | Oct 20, 2008 | Opinion
The question of what Islamic women want is asked in the larger context of who speaks for Islam, which raises these questions: What do a billion Muslims really think? How does one answer such questions? Who would dare tackle such complicated and risky questions? The...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 17, 2008 | Opinion
A recent discovery may not find its way into an Indiana Jones movie, but I found it intriguing: a diverse group of scientists and archaeologists has isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis from human bones that are more than 9,000 years old.The article has...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 17, 2008 | Opinion
Despite minor shortcomings in the translation from book to screen, “The Secret Life of Bees” stands as an emotionally fulfilling trip to the movies. “Bees,” based on the popular 2002 novel by Sue Monk Kidd, is a story about motherhood set in...
