by Barry Howard | Jun 25, 2002 | Opinion
In the rural South, where I grew up, if you were about to speak out of turn or to speak negatively about someone, an older adult would usually interrupt you with the reprimand, “Hold your tongue.” The tongue is a small member of the human body, yet the...
by Parush Parushev | Jun 24, 2002 | Opinion
I remember a conversation in the early 1980s with some high-ranking academicians in Holland. As we were talking about the diversity of cultures, one of my colleagues remarked: “Holland is a country of the coexistence of cultures. We appreciate immigrants because...
by Dwight A. Moody | Jun 24, 2002 | Opinion
The crude and careless rhetoric of a Southern Baptist preacher may have endangered the lives of Christian people around the world. In a sermon at the annual Southern Baptist Convention, Rev. Jerry Vines launched an attack on Islam calling Mohammad a...
by Robert Parham | Jun 24, 2002 | Opinion
Almost two weeks after Jerry Vines’ inflammatory remarks about Islam, Southern Baptist Convention leaders are still scrambling to defend him. Speaking at the pastors’ conference, Vines, former SBC president, condemned American pluralism and charged that...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jun 21, 2002 | Opinion
“The day you turn 16, your whole life changes.” So says an Amish teenager reflecting on rumspringa, a period lasting anywhere from ages 16-21 in which Amish youngsters are free to sample “English” culture—that is, non-Amish living. They smoke,...
by James Browning | Jun 21, 2002 | Opinion
Imagine the outcry if a person of another faith pronounced at a public meeting that Jesus was a “philandering megalomaniac with a misguided death wish.” Such a statement would misrepresent history and offend Christian sensibilities. Jerry Vines said at the...
