by Robert Parham | Jul 18, 2002 | Opinion
Got a problem? Blame the press. Facing a crisis? Finger the media. Caught in a moral crunch? Claim reporters suffer from blindness, meanness or anti-religious bigotry. In every situation of scrutiny and criticism, always point away from the organization and toward the...
by James Browning | Jul 17, 2002 | Opinion
The Rev. David H. Benke committed heresy by participating in an interfaith prayer service inspired by the events of Sept. 11, according to a ruling of his denomination. In a New York Times article, a fellow minister complains about Benke, “Instead of keeping...
by Doug Weaver | Jul 17, 2002 | Opinion
“We are the New Testament church. John Wesley founded the Methodists, John Calvin the Presbyterians, Alexander Campbell the Disciples of Christ, but Baptists have no founder. We go back to Jesus who was baptized by John the Baptist.” Many Baptists shouted...
by Mike Smith | Jul 17, 2002 | Opinion
Where does one go to find a brief yet thorough, informed yet readable introduction to the nature and authority of the Bible in the life of the church? Christopher Bryan’s And God Spoke admirably fills the bill. Bryan, who teaches New Testament at the School of...
by Ben Leslie | Jul 16, 2002 | Opinion
In my hometown of Sioux Falls, S.D., a new initiative is under way allowing juveniles charged with a first-time misdemeanor to appear before a jury of other teens who will determine their sentence. Upon reading the proposal, I confess that my first reaction was...
by Barry Howard | Jul 16, 2002 | Opinion
During the summer months, I usually re-read the Psalms and the Proverbs. These collections comprise a part of the biblical literature known as “Wisdom Writings.” In the introduction to the Proverbs, the wisdom writer gives a provocative apologetic for...
