by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jun 3, 2008 | Opinion
I have been a rabbi for more than a quarter century. In that time I have learned a few things about what makes a good rabbi; things that I believe could be of value to clergy people of all stripes. Unfortunately for you, I am keeping those for my memoir. Here are 13...
by Britt Towery | Jun 3, 2008 | Opinion
I grew up in Brownwood, Texas, an ordinary segregated county-seat town. I gave little thought to the welfare or needs of the folks who lived in “The Flats,” the place where the blacks lived. The shoe-shine “boy” in my dad’s barber shop...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 2, 2008 | Opinion
His name is not as widely familiar as Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, John Lewis and Andrew Young. But in the struggle for civil rights — especially in Birmingham, Ala. — no one played a bigger role and few paid a higher price than the...
by James L. Evans | Jun 2, 2008 | Opinion
I am beginning to feel a little sorry for Sen. John McCain. He’s done everything he is supposed to do. He beat out a large contingent of Republican presidential hopefuls fairly early allowing him to occupy the enviable position of presumptive Republican nominee...
by Robert Parham | Jun 2, 2008 | Opinion
Three different organizations have more in common that appears at first blush. One is an anti-civil rights and anti-income tax organization founded as an anti-communist body fearful that alleged traitors in the American government were seeking to establish a one-world...
by Bruce Prescott | Jun 2, 2008 | Opinion
When John Winthrop sailed across the Atlantic in 1630 the perceptions of others was at the forefront of his mind. Born into a family of English gentry, Winthrop was elected governor of Massachusetts Bay by speculators and investors who had never set foot in New...
