by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 3, 2005 | Opinion
Euro-American evangelicals, supposedly empowered by the recent election, are demanding that public schools teach the religious concept of creationism (a literal reading of Genesis 1-2). My question is which creation story should be taught? After all, anyone who has...
by Robert Parham | Dec 31, 2004 | Opinion
Time Magazine has selected a man or woman as the person of the year since 1927. President Bush is the 2004 recipient. Past recipients have included Mohandas Gandhi in 1930, Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939, Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and Pope John Paul II in...
by Bill Wilson | Dec 31, 2004 | Opinion
What could be more important to moderate Baptists than our future? Some days, I fear that we are captured by our past. The pain of fundamentalism’s “hijacking” of the SBC — that’s how Jerry Falwell characterized it — has created deep wounds...
by Alistair Brown | Dec 30, 2004 | Opinion
I don’t remember ever being made to have a bath because it was Christmas, but it was a sure part of my childhood experience of New Year. I’m from Scotland, where New Year is an important event. Christmas was abolished in Scotland at the Reformation in the...
by James L. Evans | Dec 29, 2004 | Opinion
In the midst of our Christmas and New Year’s celebration, tragedy has struck. A massive earthquake, reportedly the fourth largest in recorded history, has devastated central Asia and portions of India. Tens of thousands are known dead. One report estimates that...
by Robert O. Byrd | Dec 27, 2004 | Opinion
It struck like a thunderbolt when I read the news report that U.S. veterans of the war in Iraq are already beginning to appear in our homeless shelters. That outrageous reality shows a tragic unwillingness to learn from past wars, especially Vietnam, when veterans...
