by Keith Herron | Jul 2, 2008 | Opinion
I don’t think there’s anything weirder than religious sexual obsession. Sex is tough enough without layering our obsession about it with some bizarre religious viewpoint. Jim Jones was obsessed with sex. David Koresh couldn’t keep his hands off his...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 1, 2008 | Opinion
I was driving home from a day in the office, enjoying some quiet time and listening to public radio. For more than a year, National Public Radio has been broadcasting an occasional series of first-person pieces called “This I Believe,” and I always find it...
by Michael Ruffin | Jul 1, 2008 | Opinion
For someone who has never had a life-threatening illness or injury, I feel like I am well acquainted with death. My first experience with death was, as is the case with many children, the loss of a beloved pet. Ruff, a big black collie and something or other mix, had...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 1, 2008 | Opinion
“Sum tyms bitin, sum tyms bit.” On my desk there is a paperweight containing this bit of philosophy from the novel Riddley Walker. In pidgin English that author Russell Hoban imagines would devolve in the millennia following a nuclear holocaust, Riddley...
by Robert Parham | Jun 30, 2008 | Opinion
Maintaining muteness this week about the Southern Baptist Convention president’s honorary degrees from two diploma mills will become much more difficult for denominational officials, given the federal sentencing on Wednesday of the owners of a diploma mill....
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jun 30, 2008 | Opinion
For the past eight years, James Dobson’s brand of Christianity has been normative in the land. Dobson has preached a Christ acceptable to the present Bush administration. When George W. Bush and company get down on their knees, they pray to the same Christ to...
