by Robert Parham | Jan 4, 2007 | Opinion
President Bush has reportedly decided to tell the nation next week that winning in Iraq means a massive troop surge and sacrifice. The term “surge” means sending upwards of 30,000 more American military personnel to Iraq for an unspecified time and...
by Larry Wilson | Jan 3, 2007 | Opinion
A newspaper article last year stated that a minister told Sen. John McCain that unless he supported a presidential proposal allowing torture, McCain would not receive the evangelical vote in his pursuit to become president in 2008. When the followers of one who said,...
by Robert Parham | Jan 2, 2007 | Opinion
How many more American troops and Iraqi civilians must die before America’s churches speak a prophetic word to President Bush that violence only begets more violence and more violence is not an acceptable path forward? How long before American Christians...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 2, 2007 | Opinion
Thinking about the moral ambiguities associated with the activities at Guantanamo, we usually concentrate on how prisoners are treated or the legal procedures employed for processing prisoners. More often than not, our conversations dwell on what is known as...
by Gary Farley | Jan 1, 2007 | Opinion
Last week three young friends, former college students with bright hopes for the future, stood in federal court in Birmingham, Ala., to plead guilty to setting a series of church fires last February. They were told to expect a minimum sentence of seven years in...
by Britt Towery | Jan 1, 2007 | Opinion
The United States is not at war. Our Armed Forces and their families and friends are at war. If all Americans had been included in the ill-conceived invasion of Iraq there would be possibly a meatless Tuesday, sugar and flour rationing books. We would have been...
