by Robert Parham | Jun 17, 2005 | Opinion
My Father’s Day came early this year with one of my best gifts ever. The day began like the previous one, and the one before that, and the one before that one, stretching back for weeks. The nurse checked my vital signs and drew blood before daybreak. She gave...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 16, 2005 | Opinion
A new campaign is afoot to “make poverty history.” The ONE Campaign, launched at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall in May, aims to help deliver the death blow to poverty. The campaign’s Web site, www.one.org, targets Americans and uses celebrity...
by Robert Parham | Jun 16, 2005 | Opinion
Two examples of corruption in Washington surfaced in June, illustrating the shameless determination of political leaders to serve corporate interests over the public good, and neither involved the ethically challenged Tom Delay, majority leader of the House of...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 15, 2005 | Opinion
Judging by its $50 million-plus opening weekend, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” wasn’t hurt by speculation about an off-screen romance between stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The movie also wasn’t hurt by a plot that, beyond its initial high concept,...
by James L. Evans | Jun 14, 2005 | Opinion
The debate surrounding homosexuality has become one of the most contentious and divisive in the history of the church. Not since the debate over Jesus’ divinity in the fourth century, or the infallibility of the pope in the 16th century, or the issue of slavery...
by Robert Parham | Jun 14, 2005 | Opinion
Biafra. Rwanda. Darfur. A wide-eyed older man ran into my morning spelling class at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria, one day in 1966. Sweating profusely, he asked for protection. Our teacher took him to the principal’s office. He was clubbed to death the next...
