by James L. Evans | Mar 14, 2008 | Opinion
I’ve been following an interesting back and forth between two prominent American religious figures. The individuals involved are Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Randall Balmer, an...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 13, 2008 | Opinion
President Jimmy Carter summoned about 65 Baptist leaders to The Carter Center in Atlanta yesterday (March 12) to consider follow-up steps to the highly successful Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant held earlier this year. The group worked through multiple...
by Britt Towery | Mar 13, 2008 | Opinion
The military surge that President Bush ordered 14 months ago in Baghdad has cut down on the violence, but our soldiers are still dying at a rate of one a day. Last year (year of the surge) there were more American deaths than any year of the war. The surge was to...
by Drew Smith | Mar 13, 2008 | Opinion
When I was working on my Ph.D. in Edinburgh, Scotland, I would often take breaks from my writing and roam Auld Reekie, as Edinburgh is affectionately known. One of my favorite places of respite from the grind of writing a dissertation was the National Gallery. There I...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 12, 2008 | Opinion
A professor at Cedarville University may get to keep his job after being fired for apparently pressing for a more conservative agenda than the extremely conservative position officially held by the Baptist college in southwestern Ohio.The school’s doctrinal...
by Joe Phelps | Mar 12, 2008 | Opinion
A picture of a handsome 16-year-old black student shot to death in a parking lot recently ran across the top of the page of our daily newspaper. Another recent story described gun brandishing and a near-killing nearby. What is this, “Gunsmoke?” A summary...
