by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 19, 2008 | Opinion
Laura Cadena, a fifth-generation Tejana, recalls a story about when her grandmother moved from Laredo to Dallas, Texas: “She remembers getting on a bus and the sign saying ‘Whites Only’ or ‘Blacks Only,’ and she didn’t know where...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 18, 2008 | Opinion
This current economic crisis makes us nervous. We feel less secure — which we are financially.Politicians and economists blame everyone but themselves. And silver linings are hard to find.Perhaps one ounce of good in a pound of bad is that the loss of self-sufficiency...
by Mark Johnson | Sep 18, 2008 | Opinion
There’s been lots of bad news this past week. Hurricane Ike ran ashore over Galveston, Texas, and folks as far away as Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky felt its force. The collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae was quickly followed by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers...
by Robert Parham | Sep 18, 2008 | Opinion
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary doctoral student David Roach is writing his dissertation under the working title of “The Southern Baptist Convention and Civil Rights, 1954-1995.” These bookend dates begin with the Supreme Court’s ruling against...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 17, 2008 | Opinion
Yesterday, my compadre John Pierce devoted his blog to exploring the legitimate question of whether disaster relief is still news. I don’t know if we’ve had a lot more disasters lately, or if there’s more relief work going on — but there has...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 17, 2008 | Opinion
Much has been written about Baptist ethicist Henlee H. Barnette, including the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was interested in some of his activities. But so far as we know, Barnette’s FBI file hasn’t seen the light of day—until now. In a...
