by Robert Parham | Oct 20, 2015 | Opinion
Religious leaders wrote President Obama two weeks ago about the G-word. The G-word is genocide. It’s a charged word. It’s an ugly one. It’s a word that makes U.S. presidents and other international leaders squirm. To declare genocide is to demand...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce There is much to not like about the campaign season when candidates seek to devour opponents within their own party before eventually embracing the bruised but surviving nominee as a much-more acceptable alternative to the highly-demonized option from...
by Martin Accad | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion
I was traveling when the recent popular uprising began in Lebanon. At first, it emerged as an outcry to the trash crisis that has been engulfing Lebanon with its stench for several months now. Lebanon hasn’t had its “Arab Spring.” Some people think...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion
Fantasy football remained on the periphery of my consciousness until this season. These primarily online games allow sports fans to “draft” players to be on their virtual team. Points are earned based on football players’ performances in real-life...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Mary Center: Sightings) | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion
A mission of Sightings and the special mission assigned me here is to relate faith and faiths, as mediated by media, to public life. My sub-mission is to keep suggesting that many, if not most religious “happenings” occur away from polls,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 16, 2015 | Opinion
At Baptists Today, we’re well into our fourth year of providing a challenging Bible study curriculum we call Nurturing Faith that I write, which means we’re on our second time through the Revised Common Lectionary as a source for texts. It gets a little...
