by Paul Schrag | Nov 13, 2001 | Opinion
The U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan proves yet again that civilian casualties are inevitable in war today. This raises a question about the just-war theory: Is it sufficient not to intend to kill civilians when we know the war will kill some? If civilian...
by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 8, 2001 | Opinion
“Change the way you look at the world.” That’s the tagline for K-PAX, a new film starring two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey and multiple Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges. Spacey plays Prot, a mental patient at the Manhattan Psychiatric...
by Glen Stassen and Steven Brion-Meisels | Nov 8, 2001 | Opinion
The way out of this cycle of terrorism is to focus on justice rather than retribution, law rather than war, development rather than destruction. Justice calls us to prosecute the Sept. 11 murderers. But justice also calls us to consider the roots of terrorism,...
by Robert Parham | Nov 6, 2001 | Opinion
Afghanistan, Burma, China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam were listed as the worst violators of religious freedom, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2001 International Religious Freedom Report. These totalitarian or authoritarian regimes sought to...
by Robert Parham | Nov 6, 2001 | Opinion
Churches around the world offered prayers of intercession on Nov. 4 for persecuted Christians worldwide, in what organizers claimed was the “largest prayer day event of its kind.” According to the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted...
by Doug Weaver | Nov 5, 2001 | Opinion
At the 1978 Southern Baptist Convention, those present heard a stirring report about world hunger. The speaker asked all in attendance to skip lunch and fast for the cause. Convention president Jimmy Allen then said with a smile from the podium that although many...
