by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 11, 2005 | Opinion
Yes, Kevin Costner has played in some baseball movies: “Bull Durham,” “Field of Dreams,” “For Love of the Game.” And yes, in “The Upside of Anger” he plays a retired baseball player who finds time between drinks and...
by Bess Hinson | Mar 11, 2005 | Opinion
On the train ride back to Yale from Boston in the morning hours of Nov. 3, 2004, my best friend looked at me through eyes tearing with frustration and said, “Your people did this.” She turned her head to the aisle and spent our trip upset and without...
by Paul Montacute | Mar 9, 2005 | Opinion
“From Relief to Relive”–that was the slogan in the Chennai, India, offices of Baptist World Aid partner, the Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA). Two months after the devastating Dec. 26 tsunamis, the recovery work is moving on from relief to...
by Robert Parham | Mar 7, 2005 | Opinion
Rick Warren tacitly endorsed George Bush six days before the 2004 presidential election, claiming that the Bible was on his side and that the two major candidates could not “have more opposite views.” “For those of us who accept the Bible as...
by Gary Farley | Mar 7, 2005 | Opinion
This week began with the annual “Cattleman’s Association” banquet. About 200 attended from the farms and ranches of Pickens County, Alabama. Roast beef, of course, was served. As the leader of the other association in the county, the Baptist one, I...
by Jim Ball | Mar 4, 2005 | Opinion
Are irrational and dangerous end-of-the-world views of conservative Christians—”the earth is going to be burned up anyway, so why care for it”—behind the environmental policies of our Republican-controlled federal government? Put aside for a moment any...
