by Kristine Morrison | May 1, 2007 | Opinion
On April 20 The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Australian prime minister’s call to pray for rain in response to the dire state of the Murray-Darling Basin. This call was endorsed in a media release by Ross Clifford, president of the Baptist Union of...
by Michael Ruffin | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Stephen Prothero is chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and author of the new book “Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–and Doesn’t.” He recently published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...
by Robert Parham | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Goodwill is an energetic, positive word. It’s a proactively muscular word. It contains enough self-definition that further commentary is unnecessary in casual conversation. Let’s start describing ourselves as the goodwill Baptists. Let’s drop the...
by James L. Evans | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Christians may believe that they are participants in a “faith once delivered to the saints,” but the shape of that faith has varied greatly through the centuries. From the stately and ornate forms of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, to the humble and plain...
by Lori Burgess | Apr 27, 2007 | Opinion
If you have ever owned a computer, perhaps you can relate to my recent experience. Our laptop crashed over a month and a half ago and I am still, yep, without a computer! After sending it off to the Dell plant, we went weeks without hearing a word, except that...
by Robert Parham | Apr 27, 2007 | Opinion
Eight Democratic presidential candidates mostly skipped the issue of faith in their party’s first national televised debate, a remarkable shift after the manic activity of national Democrats following recent elections to prove that they, too, were people of...
