by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 26, 2006 | Opinion
Steve Oedekerk hopes his new movie, “Barnyard,” will succeed for audiences when it hits theaters Aug. 4. “Succeeding for an audience” or “landing for an audience” was a notion the 44-year-old writer-producer-director referenced...
by Robert Parham | Jul 26, 2006 | Opinion
An artillery shell barely missed the Rayak Baptist Church, breaking church glass, amid fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah, a Lebanese Baptist leader told EthicsDaily.com. The explosion occurred about 10 yards from the church–located in Lebanon’s...
by Larry Coleman | Jul 25, 2006 | Opinion
We can tell when election year is at hand. The air has a certain stench about it. This is how the stench pot is fueled. Find an underpowered non-threatening enemy. Find some cluster of people powerless and under-represented in the political system. Then rail away...
by Robert Parham | Jul 25, 2006 | Opinion
A U.S. Baptist official has added his name to the list of religious leaders calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East. Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., wrote President Bush Monday asking him “to exercise the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 25, 2006 | Opinion
The PBS documentary series “P.O.V.” debuts its fifth film tonight with “The Tailenders,” by filmmaker Adele Horne. Horne meshes “essay filmmaking” with an observational approach in her analysis of how a group of Christian...
by Robert Parham | Jul 24, 2006 | Opinion
A Lebanese Baptist leader questioned how much longer Christians can continue to meet growing refugee demands in a country descending into a worsening war in an e-mail request for Sunday prayers. The United Nations estimated that 700,000 people were fleeing the...