by Robert Parham | Mar 28, 2007 | Opinion
Global-warming deniers argue that science is unsettled about whether human beings are the driving cause of climate change. Some say human begins are too insignificant to change climate patterns; that climate change results from natural fluctuations, not human actions....
by Britt Towery | Mar 27, 2007 | Opinion
The story of one man’s fight for human rights and the abolition of slavery is a compelling saga. Eric Metaxas’s book “Amazing Grace,” recently made into a movie, recounts the remarkable life of the British statesman William Wilberforce...
by Robert Parham | Mar 27, 2007 | Opinion
Just war rules and claims of a just war share a common word with completely different meanings. Placing the word “just” before the word “war” doesn’t make war morally just, contrary to the feelings of pro-war American Christians. Some...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 26, 2007 | Opinion
Until the 1950s, racial segregation in public schools was the norm throughout the United States. In Topeka, Kan., a black third-grader named Linda Brown had to walk one mile to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was only seven...
by Robert Parham | Mar 23, 2007 | Opinion
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once defined ethics as “knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.” Ethics is about knowing, about discernment. Ethics is about thinking carefully and seeing clearly....
by Richard Wilson | Mar 23, 2007 | Opinion
Lent rarely evokes images of extravagance. Lent conjures up images of austerity. The challenge of Lent is to make an arduous journey of the spirit in hopes that the journey will change the mundane parts of our lives, too. Lent is not–or should not be–a...