by Jan Turrentine | Feb 6, 2004 | Opinion
Lawmakers on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill stood for the Rev. Rosemary Brown to offer a quick invocation and open a recent session. She told them to sit down. She then delivered, in powerful and prophetic style, a sermon on doing the right thing. Brown’s homily...
by Michael Helms | Feb 5, 2004 | Opinion
Instead of P. Diddy, Nelly and Kid Rock, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake as halftime performers at the Super Bowl, CBS should have brought in Ray Stevens to sing, “The Streak,” one of his classic country comedy renditions about streakers. With all the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Feb 5, 2004 | Opinion
Those of us old enough to remember the 1980s can never forget the television character Joe Isuzu, the slimy car salesman who would say anything, no matter how outrageous the lie, in order to sell a car. Fortunately, as Joe Isuzu spoke, a by-line appeared at the bottom...
by Ron Sisk | Feb 4, 2004 | Opinion
Often we teachers only learn about our mistakes in the process of inflicting them on unsuspecting students. I just finished teaching a course for the first time on “Preaching Ethically.” We had a lot of fun. We looked at ethical sermons by Martin Luther...
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Feb 4, 2004 | Opinion
“How much room is there for women of conviction to cooperate with the new conservatives?” This question was born out of my reports on a meeting that I had attended with the leaders of some local SBC churches. I am unsure this is the right question. I...
by Gary Farley | Feb 4, 2004 | Opinion
Much of what I remember from seminary classes in the late 1950s is the observations from wise professors which fell outside the boundaries of the official subject of class. Among these was an observation by New Testament professor Joseph McClain. I think the context...
