by Steve Sumerel | May 3, 2002 | Opinion
If our hallowed times were holy places, perhaps we would live better. If national, ethnic and religious holidays were not designations on a calendar, but actual places, maybe our abuse of alcohol would stand in better contrast to the celebrations. Instead of living...
by Mike Parnell | May 2, 2002 | Opinion
Summer blockbusters, like “Spider-Man” and “Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones,” are coming to a multiplex near you. These big, loud movies will be accompanied by Happy Meals, action figures and comic books. But movie-goers can look...
by Cliff Vaughn | May 2, 2002 | Opinion
We’re marketing violence to children, even though violence isn’t child’s play, according to lionlamb.org, the Web site of the Lion & Lamb Project. “The Lion & Lamb Project is concerned with violent messages stemming from: television,...
by Dwight A. Moody | May 1, 2002 | Opinion
I have some good news and some sad news. First, the good news: Publishers Weekly announced that two Christian books were the top fiction and non-fiction books in the industry in 2001. It is the first time this has ever happened. First, the good news: Publishers Weekly...
by John Finley | May 1, 2002 | Opinion
Baptist pacifists have often been an endangered species. No better example can be found than that of Joseph Judson Taylor, pastor of First Baptist Church, Savannah, Ga., as America prepared to enter World War I. Named for the famous missionary Adoniram Judson, Taylor...
by Michael Quicke | Apr 30, 2002 | Opinion
Preachers under pressure are particularly vulnerable to using others’ ideas without giving credit. Pretending that borrowed material is one’s own thinking and experience fatally wounds integrity. Without sounding like an essay writer with footnotes,...
