by Robert Parham | Jan 22, 2001 | Opinion
A Southern Baptist Convention official violated the denomination’s historic commitment to non-endorsement of political candidates and breached his own claim of non-partisan political alignment when he endorsed former Senator John Ashcroft as attorney general....
by David McCollum | Jan 16, 2001 | Opinion
“America stops on Super Sunday,” proclaims the television promotion. Sometimes, even churches stop on the Sunday of the Super Bowl. In a little more than three decades, it has become one of our most popular cultural holidays. Super Sunday is a head-to-head...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 10, 2001 | Opinion
January 15, 2001, is the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday. It is celebrated on the third Monday of January in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He married...
by Robert Parham | Jan 10, 2001 | Opinion
America’s religious community holds sharply conflicting views about President-elect Bush’s nomination of Senator John D. Ashcroft of Missouri for attorney general. The religious right supports Ashcroft, who has a long record of opposing abortion and...
by Glen Stassen | Jan 10, 2001 | Opinion
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article by Glen Stassen is reprinted with permission from Sojourners Online. To learn more about Sojourners, visit http://www.sojo.net or call 800-714-7474. When you look at the history of the church’s entanglement with the...
by Sarah Griffith | Jan 9, 2001 | Opinion
A Fox television series debuting Jan. 10 has attracted critics for tempting “committed couples” to stray from their romantic partners by surrounding them with other attractive and available singles. “Critics have already begun blasting...
