by James L. Evans | Jan 21, 2008 | Opinion
In his elegant little book, “Finally Comes the Poet,” Walter Brueggemann writes that the task of the preacher is to be “a voice that shatters settled reality and evokes new possibilities.” If he is right about that, then no preacher in the last...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 21, 2008 | Opinion
On Jan. 2, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a “mass meeting” at Brown Chapel in Selma, Ala. This meeting kicked off the involvement of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma’s voting rights campaign. King had already survived...
by Andrew Manis | Jan 21, 2008 | Opinion
The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday affords Americans a built-in opportunity to revisit the issue of racial justice. It is also a window through which we may re-view the lives of others who, like King, pushed America toward becoming a “beloved community” of...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 21, 2008 | Opinion
The great modern-day theologian–Steven Colbert of the popular Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report”–recently began accepting applications for the position of his very own “black friend.” Recognizing the importance of political...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 20, 2008 | Opinion
The rain did not turn to snow in Macon, Ga., this weekend as forecast, much to my younger daughter’s disappointment. But knowing the precipitation in some form was certain, I picked up a DVD of “Fat Albert” on Friday afternoon for wet-weather...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 18, 2008 | Opinion
In thinking through my options for a post today, I was intrigued by a continuing spate of articles relative to neuro-science. My last post cited research showing that the brain’s pleasure center can influence it’s taste center, explaining why we sometimes...
