by Robert Parham | Feb 11, 2004 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention’s 2004 doctrinal study evades Jesus’ teachings, skipping his Sermon on the Mount and ignoring his greatest commandment. Simply put, if Matthew, Mark and Luke receive any attention in Discovering the Biblical Jesus, then the...
by Mike Parnell | Feb 10, 2004 | Opinion
Living away from a large urban area can be hard—especially hard when you are a movie buff. Many of the art house films do not come your way. When a movie comes out you cannot get to, you wait with bated breath for its DVD release. “Lost in Translation” was...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Feb 10, 2004 | Opinion
“Cynic,” and its derivatives, is surely among the biggest “diss” words of this wartime era. While cynicism is real and dangerous, charges of such occur regularly in conversation and print as a means of dismissing the socio-political critique or...
by Paul Montacute | Feb 9, 2004 | Opinion
I missed the Super Bowl and also BWA Day. Well, not exactly. I expected that I would be celebrating the annual Baptist World Alliance Day, and watching the Super Bowl, somewhere. That “somewhere” turned out to be in Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK), and I did...
by James L. Evans | Feb 9, 2004 | Opinion
Janet Jackson’s breast-baring stunt during this year’s Super Bowl has outraged viewers, religious leaders, family groups and politicians. Christian groups such as the American Family Association expressed their outrage claiming, “CBS deliberately...
by Jim Wallis | Feb 6, 2004 | Opinion
Next year, put your kids to bed BEFORE the Super Bowl. I’ll admit it, I like a good football game, and this turned out to be a very good one, after a boring, slow start. But what everybody was talking about the next day was the baring of Janet Jackson’s...
