by Jim West | Oct 11, 2006 | Opinion
Terry Redmon is an activist trying to persuade the school board Wilson County, Tennessee, to implement a “Bible elective” course to help students understand the Book’s impact on world history. At face value this would seem to be remarkably important,...
by Robert Parham | Oct 11, 2006 | Opinion
Did the Tennessee Republican Party intentionally darken a picture of Democratic Senate nominee Harold Ford, an African-American, in a fund-raising letter? Three versions of the same photograph of Ford, who is a Baptist, appear side-by-side on this Tennessee blog site....
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 10, 2006 | Opinion
The PBS documentary series “P.O.V.” continues tonight with “Maquilapolis: City of Factories,” which takes viewers inside the lives of factory workers along the U.S.-Mexico border. By giving cameras to workers Carmen Durán and Lourdes Luján,...
by Joe Phelps | Oct 10, 2006 | Opinion
Thomas Merton, the famous author and monk, had a revelation of God at Fourth and Walnut in Louisville, so I shouldn’t be surprised to have a similar experience a few blocks away. The afternoon sun beat down on the group of 75 people huddled around the portable...
by Robert Parham | Oct 9, 2006 | Opinion
Former Republican Senator John Danforth rejected the idea of a Christian political agenda in his new book. The proposition is advocated by the Christian Right. “Christianity does not give us an agenda for American politics,” Danforth wrote in Faith and...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 9, 2006 | Opinion
Women were raped. Children were disemboweled. Men fell prey to the invaders’ swords. Within a generation, the lives and cultures of the indigenous people of the Americas were forever changed. Avarice for gold and glory took its course and decimated the...
