by Jeff Woods | Feb 14, 2003 | Opinion
For congregational leaders, courage is lived out on a rope held taut by the priestly function of the clergy on one end and the prophetic function of the clergy on the other. Rudolph Giuliani’s popularity suddenly escalated, as well, as he bravely tackled the...
by Roger Thomas | Feb 14, 2003 | Opinion
Movies like “The Recruit” follow a simple formula. There is always a hero, played by some hot new star, who may have talent, or at least the good looks. There is always a mentor figure, played by some seasoned veteran star, who starts off gruff, but...
by Gary Farley | Feb 13, 2003 | Opinion
Those short-sighted people prospering from the abuse of our rural places and peoples are not listening. And they have the ears of our governments. Young men and women from the rural South, Baptist young folk, will be much more highly represented in terms of...
by Mike Parnell | Feb 13, 2003 | Opinion
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson team up again—and follow the same formula—for “Shanghai Knights.” Jackie Chan moved to the U.S. market in the late ’90s. In his early career, he made some of the greatest action pictures in Hong Kong cinema. His fighting...
by Dwight A. Moody | Feb 12, 2003 | Opinion
Standing four-square in Bush’s bellicose corner are the Southern Baptists. Not all 15 million of them, of course, but at least the two score or so men who run the nation’s largest evangelical denomination. On one point he is right: Saddam Hussein is a mean...
by Karen Zurheide | Feb 12, 2003 | Opinion
We’re not wealthy, and maybe we should be putting more money aside for college, but we also believe in investing in the family vacation account, and I think with great benefit. Frequency of family dinners has declined for years. Much of the time that parents and...
