by Ron Sisk | May 23, 2005 | Opinion
On the one hand the recent spectacle of the choice of Benedict XVI as pope bears little resemblance to the work of a Baptist pulpit committee’s search for a new pastor. The dress is different, the pool of potential candidates is larger and your pulpit committee...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | May 20, 2005 | Opinion
Snap! Flash! Employees, board members, citizens and students of color are being followed around as they work, shop, study or play. But this time it’s by camera-toting public relations folk eager to catch them in the act of representing the organization’s...
by Mike Parnell | May 20, 2005 | Opinion
All is forgiven, George. We thought you had lost your way. Those last two movies were not up to what we had come to expect from you. When you were determined to make them without any of the help you used in “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” or...
by Jim Huff | May 19, 2005 | Opinion
I am the church member who made the request to use facilities of First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City for a public meeting with Barry Lynn. I applaud and endorse all of the recent and future church activities described by Pastor Tom Ogburn in his May 10...
by Mark Ray | May 18, 2005 | Opinion
A new issue of The Southern Seminary Journal of Theology admonishes future Baptists to continue believing the Bible, keep themselves morally pure, uphold and express their Christian faith and encourage fellow church members to do the same. Who would argue with that?...
by Robert Parham | May 18, 2005 | Opinion
“Some secrets are hidden from health,” wrote John Updike in his poem “Fever.” I have experienced the truth of Updike’s observation. My excellent health kept me from seeing some things—things that became secrets of sort. One relates to my...
