by Mike Parnell | Aug 8, 2006 | Opinion
“Lady in the Water,” now in theaters, swings for the fences as writer-director M. Night Shyamalan stuffs his movie with a study of the creative process and a primer on purpose. Paul Giamatti plays maintenance man Cleveland Heep, a sad gentleman who...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 7, 2006 | Opinion
United States’ history has proven that most of its presidents, congressional leaders and Supreme Court justices have been guilty of the sin of Sodom. Many of the religious leaders today, specifically conservative evangelicals, are also guilty of Sodom’s...
by Robert Parham | Aug 7, 2006 | Opinion
Lebanese Baptists questioned a proposed U.N. resolution drafted by the United States and France seeking a truce in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has lasted more than three weeks. Nearly 1,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed, and more than 3,300...
by Riad Kassis | Aug 5, 2006 | Opinion
Qana is about 10 miles east of the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre. According to tradition it is the village where Jesus Christ performed his first miracle by turning water into wine (John 2: 1-11). The presence and work of Jesus gave the wedding a new turn and...
by Robert Parham | Aug 5, 2006 | Opinion
Israeli air strikes forced Lebanese Baptists to admit on Friday that the Christian areas of Beirut were no longer safe and caused SAT-7, a Christian satellite-TV network, to close its offices there. In an e-mail newsletter, the Lebanese Society for Education and...
by Dalen Jackson | Aug 4, 2006 | Opinion
Changes of mind concerning women in ministry seem to be much in the news these days. According to EthicsDaily.com, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Frank Page, wrote a doctoral dissertation years ago in which he concluded that there were...
