by Barry Howard | Nov 30, 2006 | Opinion
In the rural church of my upbringing, we didn’t observe Advent. We jumped directly from Thanksgiving to Christmas. In our close-knit congregation, the non-negotiable liturgical dates on our church calendar other than Christmas and Easter were Church Conference...
by Daniel Bagby | Nov 29, 2006 | Opinion
“Not that I’m not disturbed by all the proud bigots, but it is alarming to think that everyone is walking around harboring all this ill will, and it takes a few drinks or a bad day to unleash it.” — Richmond Times Dispatch worker, on Mel Gibson...
by Charles W. Deweese | Nov 28, 2006 | Opinion
Every year, as the result of misusing alcoholic beverages, many Baptists die in accidents; batter their spouses and children; abandon their marriages and families; experience mental, emotional, and physical sickness; fail to report to their workplaces; lose their...
by Danny Chisholm | Nov 27, 2006 | Opinion
A recent front-page article in “The Wall Street Journal” introduced pastors who use the sermons of other ministers. A photo of Ed Young Jr. was sketched to the side, with information that this pastor sells his sermons for $10 apiece from a Web site. You...
by Robert Parham | Nov 27, 2006 | Opinion
A column in the Tennessean generated 70 negative e-mails from the race-denying residents of Tennessee. The Nashville newspaper carried a statement about the defeat of Democratic senatorial candidate Harold Ford, in which I wrote: “Tennesseans looked at the...
by James L. Evans | Nov 24, 2006 | Opinion
With Thanksgiving Day behind us, we now enter the Christmas season at full gallop. Of course, Christmas has been peeking out here and there since Halloween, but now it’s official. It’s all here–the shopping, the lights, the traffic, the music and the...
