by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 9, 2008 | Opinion
Baptists in America are often the brunt of jokes (generally aimed at the more fundamentalist branches of the family tree), leading us to occasionally complain that people are unfairly beating up on Baptists. We should be grateful that the “beating up”...
by Robert Parham | Apr 9, 2008 | Opinion
The “Atlantic” magazine has a cover title of “Which Religion Will Win” with an artistic question mark designed out of a crescent moon intersecting with a crucifix atop a globe. One of the issue’s major articles examines the competition...
by Joe Phelps | Apr 9, 2008 | Opinion
The Ten Commandments belong in communities of faith, not in public places.So it was affirmed again last week, this time by U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley Jr. in an ongoing attempt by the religious right to place them at the courthouse in Grayson County, Ky. How...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 8, 2008 | Opinion
“Religion is part of the explosion of online communications,” said Douglas Gould, president of the New York-based communications firm Douglas Gould and Company. He notes that 20 percent of the country’s 8 million blogs address religion. With so many...
by James L. Evans | Apr 8, 2008 | Opinion
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is currently offering an exceptional production of Tom Dudzick’s humorous play, “Over the Tavern.” The story line is about a Catholic family in the 1950s that literally lives over a tavern. The characters, Chester and...
by Robert Parham | Apr 8, 2008 | Opinion
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, reported late Friday afternoon that they made since 2000 more than $109 million and gave $10.25 million to charity. They averaged over this period 9.5 percent to charity, almost the Bible’s...
