by James L. Evans | Jun 12, 2007 | Opinion
The decision by the Alabama Legislature to pass a resolution apologizing for our state’s role in slavery has provoked mixed responses. Some hail it as a step forward in healing a wound from our troubled past. Others see the move as too little to late. Still...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jun 11, 2007 | Opinion
Racial reconciliation can never be confused with the white dominant culture shedding crocodile tears while offering deep felt apologies. Unfortunately, this has been the pattern employed by my denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1845 Southern Baptists...
by Robert Parham | Jun 8, 2007 | Opinion
The politics of fear afflicts our culture and infects our congregations. “We have become a nation consumed by fear, worried about terrorists and rogue nations, Muslims and Mexicans, foreign companies and free trade, immigrants and international...
by Britt Towery | Jun 7, 2007 | Opinion
One Saturday night that seems like centuries ago, a phone call came from a woman who said she was secretary to Col. Harlan Sanders. I thought it was a joke by one of my colleagues. She went on to say the colonel was in town and wondered if he could worship with us...
by Rod Benson | Jun 6, 2007 | Opinion
At the same time as the Australian government is engaged in international talks aimed at securing a global treaty banning cluster bombs, the Defense Department has claimed that limitations on the Australian Defense Force’s capacity to acquire the weapons would...
by David Coffey | Jun 5, 2007 | Opinion
I have been able during the past 16 years to witness at close hand the state of church relations in the United Kingdom, and for the past four years as moderator of the Free Churches Group have enjoyed an even closer encounter with the inner workings of the ecumenical...
