by Keith Herron | May 4, 2007 | Opinion
This past week, we in Kansas City were forced to take an unblinking look at the emotional toll taken when a deranged man desperately needing psychiatric care picked up a gun and went on a shooting rampage. On a much smaller scale we were drawn into the emotional drama...
by Robert Parham | May 4, 2007 | Opinion
A Mormon voiced the best of the Baptist tradition on the separation of church and state in the first Republican presidential TV debate last night. Asked about the denial of communion to pro-abortion-rights politicians by Roman Catholic clergy, former Massachusetts...
by Rod Benson | May 3, 2007 | Opinion
Events in the Republic of Turkey have attracted recent media attention. Three events raise important questions for Turkey’s political future, for the small minority of Christians who live and work there, and for every community threatened by radical Islam....
by Mike Smith | May 3, 2007 | Opinion
Religious freedom, actually radical religious freedom, is in the DNA of all healthy Baptists. Truth to tell, religious freedom may be the only special theological contribution Baptists may claim to have made to the broader Christian community. Our Baptist forebears...
by Robert Parham | May 2, 2007 | Opinion
Money, sex and power have a moral toxicity when mixed and misused. All three components have contaminated the ethos at the World Bank, the institution intended to help the poor, reduce global poverty and raise the standard of living. The World Bank president, who came...
by Britt Towery | May 1, 2007 | Opinion
There is coming on the scene a more efficient, though expensive, way to wage war from the skies–the drone aircraft, the Predator. The Predator is the product of the small, privately owned San Diego General Atomics Aeronautical System. It’s a great way to...
