Albert Mohler on Singleness and Childlessness

by | Feb 20, 2006 | Opinion

Albert Mohler continues to demonstrate that he is not content to let the Bible be the Bible. In a December 2005 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Mohler defended one of his more interesting authoritative pronouncements in recent years, a discourse on the...

Pastoral Ethics and Church Process

by | Feb 20, 2006 | Opinion

As I entered one pastorate, the church’s chapel hadn’t been redecorated in nearly 40 years. It had fixed pews with dust-laden, deteriorating cushions, peeling green paint, poor lighting, a dilapidated organ, an old piano, an antiquated sound system and a...

‘Christian Statesman,’ Han Wenzao, Dead at Age 83

by | Feb 17, 2006 | Opinion

The news of the death Feb. 3 of Dr. Han Wenzao in Nanjing, China, caught my wife and me by surprise. Jody put her hand to her mouth, for it was like losing a member of the family. We paused to pray for his wife, Zhuo Zhaohua, who was by his side for six decades. Han...

‘Eight Below’

by | Feb 17, 2006 | Opinion

Most kids love snow and dogs. Combine them in an adventure film, and the hook is set. In “Eight Below,” Frank Marshall directs his first feature film since 1995’s “Congo.” But this Disney film, which opens nationwide today, puts him back...

If It’s Broken, Then Let’s Really Fix It

by | Feb 16, 2006 | Opinion

Gov. Bob Riley deserves a lot of credit for trying to do something about Alabama’s grossly unfair income tax structure. The fact that we begin assessing income tax on a family of four that earns as little as $4,600 is a tragedy. So the governor’s desire to...