by J.V. McKinney | May 11, 2015 | Opinion
My brother and I grew up in a small town in the East Arkansas Delta in the ’40s and ’50s. We lived on Division Street. It was a great place to live if you were white. Our small frame rent house was in the last block of South Division before it passed under...
by Robert Parham | May 11, 2015 | Opinion
When does provoking hatred cross the line from free speech to irresponsible speech? The legal answer may differ from the moral answer. The legal answer appeared in a recent court ruling. A United States District Court judge ruled earlier this year that the New York...
by Matt Sapp | May 8, 2015 | Opinion
A man left a dime, a nickel and three pennies in an offering envelope at First United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He wrote these words on the envelope: “Please don’t be mad, I don’t have much. I’m homeless. God bless.”...
by Bill Wilson | May 8, 2015 | Opinion
I have made the case over the years that ministers and churches must cultivate a spirit of and appreciation for entrepreneurship if they are to thrive in the 21st century. Living in a post-church and post-Christian culture requires us to become innovative and creative...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 7, 2015 | Opinion
Today was the official “National Day of Prayer,” so designated by the U.S. Congress in 1952 — a period of evangelical fervor that also saw “under God” added to the pledge of allegiance (1954) and “In God We Trust” adopted as a...
by Thomas Kidd | May 7, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists unduly rescinded the offer to Ben Carson to speak at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference because of what critics see as irrelevant theological differences between evangelicals and Seventh-Day Adventists, Carson’s...
