by Robert Parham | Sep 24, 2012 | Opinion
President Obama is playing politics with immigration and faith. Some of the reading public learned last week that the Obama administration doesn’t want federal health care insurance coverage provided to the young undocumented immigrants who he declared in June...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 21, 2012 | Opinion
The murder of an American diplomat and three others in Libya, the deaths of many others in riotous protests, and an ongoing outbreak of rage in the Muslim world that shows no sign of abating call for us to ask an important question: Should videos such as the...
by Larry Greenfield | Sep 21, 2012 | Opinion
It was heartening to learn that so many churches in Chicago last week passed the welcoming test that Jesus created. That is, they opened their doors to welcome children. “What’s so unusual about that?” you’re probably asking. Isn’t that...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 20, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce One could not grow up in the Chattanooga area in the 1960s and ’70s as I did without an awareness of Independent Baptist Fundamentalism. Highland Park Baptist Church and its related schools, Tennessee Temple, stood out. The church’s...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 20, 2012 | Opinion
The story is spreading across the country now, as local newspapers, websites, and bloggers are picking up early reports, like this New York Times account, of a discovery recently announced by Harvard scholar Karen L. King — a small fragment of ancient papyrus...
by Chuck Queen | Sep 20, 2012 | Opinion
When I say “the way up is down,” I do not mean to infer this as a strategy for personal success, honor or reward. When the disciples were caught arguing about who would be the greatest in the kingdom of God, Jesus rebuked them and said, “Whoever...
