by Naomi King Walker | Mar 6, 2012 | Opinion
In 1978, Frank and Evelyn Stagg’s groundbreaking book, “Woman in the World of Jesus,” gave impetus to the modern women in ministry movement. The Staggs’ meticulous research effectively poked large holes in prevailing Scripture interpretations...
by Jessica Adkins | Mar 6, 2012 | Opinion
It’s hard to be a bright-eyed, ambitious college student when everywhere you look, people are shouting that the sky is falling. With constant concern over the unemployment rate and the economy, it seems degrees don’t guarantee the middle-class life that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 5, 2012 | Opinion
ProFlowers has withdrawn its ads from Rush Limbaugh’s political radio show, according to news reports, making it the seventh company to abandon the ultra-conservative talk show host. Limbaugh’s intemperate screeds and fuzzy logic have peppered the airwaves...
by James L. Evans | Mar 5, 2012 | Opinion
This past Tuesday, a group of Alabama religious leaders gathered in the Archives building in Montgomery and called for the repeal of Alabama’s infamous immigration law. Passed as HB 56, the law has been variously identified and vilified as one of the toughest...
by Robert Parham | Mar 5, 2012 | Opinion
Almost a quarter century after a Southern Baptist Convention agency board member called Martin Luther King Jr. a fraud and said apartheid was “beneficial,” the SBC may well elect its first African-American president: Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 2, 2012 | Opinion
The warmer than usual winter in the Southeast has many people thinking of spring. Many of the trees are budding and blooming a bit earlier than usual, marking the roadsides with bursts of pink and white. Jonquils and daffodils have been showing off for weeks now, and...
