by James L. Evans | Feb 3, 2006 | Opinion
I was fortunate this past week to have been in a meeting with Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus of Brooklyn’s Concord Baptist Church. For nearly 50 years, this eloquent and wise minister guided a diverse congregation through some of the most tumultuous times our...
by Marion Carson | Feb 2, 2006 | Opinion
In Britain slavery was abolished in 1833. In France it was abolished in 1848. Other European countries followed suit, some taking longer than others, but today Europe prides itself in it declaration that all men and women are equal. Yet slavery is alive and well in...
by Ray Waddle | Feb 1, 2006 | Opinion
Michael Lerner, a liberal public intellectual and rabbi, fears the Religious Right–its power, militarism and moral contradictions. But he admits he appreciates it, too–its confidence about its beliefs, its sensitivity to the yearnings of Americans for...
by James L. Evans | Feb 1, 2006 | Opinion
“The unholy alliance of the political Right and Religious Right threatens to destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular revulsion against God and religion by identifying them with militarism, ecological irresponsibility, fundamentalist...
by Andy Watts | Jan 31, 2006 | Opinion
The Society of Christian Ethics and The Society of Jewish Ethics held their annual meetings concurrently in Phoenix earlier this January. Both societies are academic in nature and in membership, comprised of professors and scholars from North America and other...
by Britt Towery | Jan 30, 2006 | Opinion
The Chinese began to celebrate the Year of the Dog on Sunday, Jan. 29. It is the 11th symbolic animal of Twelve Terrestrial Branches that make up the cycle of a normal life on earth. Anytime we live past 60 is gravy–“living on borrowed time,” as...
