by Roger Thomas | Feb 9, 2006 | Opinion
As we move closer to this year’s Academy Awards, there seems to be more and more discussion about the frontrunner for Best Picture, “Brokeback Mountain.” Most of the discussion, especially among Christian groups, seems to focus on the homosexual...
by Carol Robinson | Feb 9, 2006 | Opinion
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Fire erupted at three more rural Alabama churches Tuesday, less than a week after five Baptist churches burned in the state. State and federal investigators were dispatched to the sites, said Ragan Ingram, assistant commissioner of the Alabama...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 8, 2006 | Opinion
After reviewing President Bush’s $2.77 trillion budget for 2007, I am convinced that he is a man who reads the Bible literally. Specifically Matthew 25:29: “For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even...
by Robert Parham | Feb 8, 2006 | Opinion
Does the present U.S. course in Iraq constitute a just war? The Christian ethic of just war theory is a time-honored method for determining whether a nation should go to war. According to this ethical method, some wars are just and some are unjust. Just wars must pass...
by David Batstone | Feb 7, 2006 | Opinion
I was very surprised that President George Bush brushed over the health care crisis in his State of the Union address last week. “Crisis” is not an exaggeration. Nearly one-quarter of Americans walk around in a precarious state absent health care...
by Gary Farley | Feb 6, 2006 | Opinion
Ministry in rural areas, particularly poor ones, is becoming increasingly challenging due to the growing plague of crystal methamphetamine. Its production and use is destroying persons and families. It breaks the hearts of pastors, Sunday school teachers, youth...
