by Drew Smith | Jun 24, 2008 | Opinion
What does it mean to be Christian? The word, as far as we know, is first used in Acts 11:26, when the disciples are called Christians at Antioch. The term itself means one who follows Christ. But in our modern society, where Christianity has been so intertwined with...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 23, 2008 | Opinion
For years I have half-listened to flight attendants warn that, in the event an aircraft should lose cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the compartment above. The warning is always followed by an illustration on how to put the yellow cup over your mouth and...
by Robert Parham | Jun 23, 2008 | Opinion
The Holocaust is a singular event of 20th-century social evil that should not be watered down by flawed analogies to other moral wrongs. Defective analogies trivialize genocide and the suffering of survivors. Goodwill Baptists make a grotesque moral error if we...
by Mark Johnson | Jun 23, 2008 | Opinion
What do Karen Armstrong, Kathleen Norris and Anne Rice have in common? Actually, they share several similarities. They are all white women born in the 1940s who have been heavily influenced by the Catholic tradition and are prolific and acclaimed English-language...
by Andy Watts | Jun 23, 2008 | Opinion
So the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Bill foundered in Congress. Everyone knew it would stall and fail. What’s the big deal? For many American Christians, the deal is not that it failed but that their freedoms are being threatened to begin with. Many...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 21, 2008 | Opinion
Here are a few images from the second day of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting in Memphis, along with a couple of local points of interest.In a business session Friday morning, participants unanimously approved a $16.5 million budget and new officers. An...
