by James L. Evans | Jan 27, 2012 | Opinion
This past Tuesday, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address. As many presidents before him, the president called upon Americans to unite around our higher angels and lay aside partisan bickering for the common good. Sadly, before he could leave...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jan 26, 2012 | Opinion
Last February, the IBM supercomputer, Watson, won an exhibition game of the TV show “Jeopardy!” against two of its best contestants. This was a significant advance on Deep Blue, another IBM supercomputer, which had defeated the six-time world chess...
by Trevor Barton | Jan 26, 2012 | Opinion
January is Poverty Awareness Month in the United States. When I walk into Paola’s first-grade classroom, I’m aware of her poverty. Nine out of 10 of the students at our school meet the federal poverty level guidelines. She is one of them. She lives in a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 25, 2012 | Opinion
Walter B. (Buddy) Shurden spoke twice at Campbell University this week. Both addresses were perceptive and challenging, worthy of a wider audience. I want to hit a few of the high spots from the Monday evening service of “Celebrating Our Baptist Heritage,”...
by Richard Pierard | Jan 25, 2012 | Opinion
As an unreconstructed “Northern” Baptist now living in the South, I find rather curious the endeavor of the Southern Baptist Convention to find a new name for itself. After all, it is the church that was born in the controversy over slavery, did what it...
by Martin Marty | Jan 25, 2012 | Opinion
Next week Crown Forum will publish “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.” The weekend Wall Street Journal gave a generous two-pagepreview. The foretaste in the Journal presented no surprises, since the author, Charles Murray, offered the...
