by Jan Turrentine | Jul 2, 2004 | Opinion
“When I ran for governor many years ago I estimated I shook 600,000 hands, and when I was president I visited all 50 states, and since I left office my wife and I have traveled to more than 120 nations. “When I ran for governor many years ago I estimated I...
by Jeanette Holt | Jul 1, 2004 | Opinion
Mitri Raheb is the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem and director of the International Center of Bethlehem. He is Arab, Palestinian and Christian, in his own words, “an Arab Christian living in an Arab-Islamic context, a context...
by Jack Brymer | Jul 1, 2004 | Opinion
“Torture, burning at the stake and other punishment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as commonly believed, the Vatican said Tuesday.” This lead paragraph in an Associated...
by James L. Evans | Jun 30, 2004 | Opinion
The coarser side of American politics was on view recently as Vice President Cheney and Sen. Patrick Leahy engaged in a brief exchange on the floor of the U.S. Senate. During the heated discussion the vice president used an expletive that is most often excluded from...
by Robert Parham | Jun 29, 2004 | Opinion
Moderate Baptists and Jews face each other today in some ways as Esau and Jacob faced each other after their rupture years earlier over the blessing of their father Isaac. We are uncertain. We are not sure what to do. We are unclear about what steps to take. During...
by James L. Evans | Jun 29, 2004 | Opinion
It has to be one of the most frustrating political and religious conundrums ever encountered. For centuries now relations between Jews and Christians have rocked back and forth, from bad to horrible. The horrible occurred during our darker moments when Christians...
