by Robert Parham | Feb 19, 2007 | Opinion
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate cast moral votes last week on the White House’s plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq. The majority of Representatives took a moral, albeit symbolical, vote against an administration that fabricated a case for...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Feb 19, 2007 | Opinion
Baptists in North America work apart far more frequently than we work together. We seem to prefer independence over interdependence. The New Baptist Covenant is an attempt to collaborate around sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, with attention to its impact on public...
by James L. Evans | Feb 16, 2007 | Opinion
The way the old joke goes, eventually everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. For Anna Nicole Smith, she got a bit more than 15 minutes, though some of it has followed her to the grave. In her case it is necessary to define “fame.” Smith was basically famous...
by Robert Parham | Feb 16, 2007 | Opinion
According to a National Journal poll, 87 percent of Republican congressmen reject the scientific consensus that the causes of global-warming are man-made. At a congressional hearing on the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rep. Dana...
by Larry Wilson | Feb 15, 2007 | Opinion
I have found that a funeral, the occasion on which we come to church when all other gods have failed, is a good place to speak the gospel. The god of “saving for a rainy day” is dead, because cash has failed us. Modern medicine, with specialists collecting...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 14, 2007 | Opinion
Churches across the globe will celebrate “Amazing Grace Sunday” this Feb. 18 in an effort to draw attention to the modern-day slave trade. The event coincides with the upcoming film “Amazing Grace,” which tells the story of William...
