by Robert Parham | Oct 31, 2006 | Opinion
Republicans have triggered their “Southern Strategy” in the Tennessee Senate race, as evidenced by a bare-shouldered white woman–an actress playing a blond Playboy bunny, who winks and whispers for African-American Democratic senatorial candidate...
by Jim Holladay | Oct 31, 2006 | Opinion
One more week and it will all be over! All the campaign ads, the mudslinging, the distortions, the character attacks—after next Tuesday it will all end, and we can get back to other things; we can have our televisions back. But will it really be over? Or will it just...
by Andy Watts | Oct 30, 2006 | Opinion
Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged Tuesday that the violence in Iraq is not yet abating, and that the process of handing over security to Iraqi forces has “a long way to go,” according to an NPR report. The befuddling thing about his admission is, in...
by James L. Evans | Oct 27, 2006 | Opinion
Halloween is here and as always there seems to be something for everyone. Kids get candy, big kids get beer and folks of all ages give expression to their alter egos by means of outrageous costumes. Of course, not everyone will be having fun. Church leaders annually...
by Brian Kaylor | Oct 27, 2006 | Opinion
In their book “Blinded by Might” conservative Christians Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson chided Religious Right leaders for becoming too involved in politics. In one chapter entitled “Focus on the Family, Not on Politics,” Thomas critiques comments...
by Christa Brown | Oct 26, 2006 | Opinion
When congregational autonomy becomes an excuse for failing to protect kids against sexual predators, then it is part of an immoral construct. That is the perversion I see in the country’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. A month...
