by Michael Ruffin | Mar 22, 2007 | Opinion
A personal policy prevents me from identifying my choices in an election. It would be detrimental to my work as a pastor to choose sides publicly in an election contest. I will talk issues. Prophetic preaching demands that issues, including those that relate to public...
by Larry Wilson | Mar 22, 2007 | Opinion
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God,” says the beginning of Romans Chapter 13. “Therefore whoever resists authority resists...
by James L. Evans | Mar 21, 2007 | Opinion
A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll is yielding important information that will likely have great significance for the so-called “values voter,” and those organizations that promote values voting. The term “values voter” came into wide usage...
by Michael Ruffin | Mar 20, 2007 | Opinion
Bowie Kuhn, the commissioner of major league baseball from 1969 to 1984, died last Thursday at age 80. Kuhn served as commissioner during the years that I really started paying attention to baseball. Indeed, he is the first commissioner about whom I remember hearing....
by Nabil Costa | Mar 19, 2007 | Opinion
Often coffee breaks in our offices in Beirut allow time for reflection. Lately, I’ve been asking myself, “Why in the world did the Baptist missionaries found the Beirut Baptist School 60 years ago? Why did the Presbyterians start schools over 100 years ago...
by Britt Towery | Mar 19, 2007 | Opinion
Since the off-year elections of last November there is divided opinion on what the vote was all about. Some think the people were saying with their votes that they had had enough of the Iraqi war. Others saw it as wanting a change in leadership in Congress. The people...
