by Michael Helms | Jan 10, 2005 | Opinion
I began this year with a study of Jeremiah, the longest and one of the most complex books of the Bible. Robert Carroll once wrote: “The reader who is not confused by reading the book of Jeremiah has not understood it.” Like the study of any biblical book,...
by James L. Evans | Jan 7, 2005 | Opinion
Let’s assume for a moment that evangelicals are right when they say that Jesus is the full and final revelation of God and that having a personal relationship with Jesus is the only way to have eternal life. Let’s also assume for a moment that evangelicals...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 7, 2005 | Opinion
Though originally released in October, “Sideways” is still knocking around various cities and screens. It’s a small film with a big appetite, gobbling up critical praise on its way to the Golden Globes and Academy Awards. “Sideways”...
by Robert Parham | Jan 5, 2005 | Opinion
Fundamentalist leader James Dobson reads from a small Bible, having shrunken the Christian moral agenda to the anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality issues. Puffed up from President Bush’s election, Dobson now threatens to put six Democratic senators in...
by Gary Farley | Jan 4, 2005 | Opinion
The settlement and development of rural America was driven by a social vision attributed to Thomas Jefferson. He believed that our nation would become primarily characterized by the majority of people living and working on small farms. Nearby, typically within three...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Jan 3, 2005 | Opinion
The family from which I come and that into which I married both tend toward Christian conservatism in all matters religious and political. Since “9/11”, our differences ideologically have emerged most noticeably in exchanges of e-mail. Mostly these have...
