Will New Southern Baptist Name Change Perception?

Doing and being church in today’s world is unlike ever before. Nor does it seem to get any easier, to be sure. After I posted complaints on Facebook about the way I felt my Arkansas Razorback football team was being mistreated earlier this season by the...

King’s Words of Truth Continue to Set Us Free

I grew up in Atlanta – Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown – during the most intense days of the civil rights movement. The center of the movement was in Atlanta’s “Sweet Auburn” district, a vibrant African-American business and...

2012 Is About Leadership

Leadership is the pole to which many issues are tethered in 2012. As the Arab Spring unfolds in a new year, the struggle is over leadership. American electoral politics is about leadership. Clashing Republicans seek to find a standard-bearer to challenge President...

Opportunity makes a difference

If you want to see a movie that will clench your viscera, lift your spirits, and remind you of something very important, check out Red Tails, George Lucas’ movie about the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.  Samuel and I went over the weekend, and it’s...

Why Presidential Hopefuls Must Feign Religious Piety

The 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be as much an old-time religious revival as it is a political contest. Informed by consultants that more than 60 percent of American voters prefer candidates with strong religious convictions, Republicans and Democrats are...