by Fred Guttman | Oct 6, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The column below is excerpted from the Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Fred Guttman at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, N.C. This past summer during the debt crisis, I happened to hear Jackson Browne’s classic song “Running on Empty.”...
by Ron Crawford | Oct 6, 2011 | Opinion
I sat in the congregation for a friend’s funeral and felt the weight of grief. I most certainly felt grief related to the loss of my friend, yet there was more. In the pew, I experienced cascading mental images of funerals past: Lloyd, Collette, Nathan,...
by Ircel Harrison | Oct 6, 2011 | Opinion
With the announced retirement not only of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s executive coordinator, Daniel Vestal, but also longtime leader Terry Hamrick (who has at least three different titles on the website) and the upcoming report of the Hull Committee,...
by Robert Parham | Oct 6, 2011 | Opinion
Are white Baptist clergy in Alabama doing today on immigration what their predecessors did in the days of segregation – hiding behind the law to keep from taking a moral stand for a just society? Or do they really support the law that is considered the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 5, 2011 | Opinion
Word is trickling out — slowly, because he wanted no fanfare — that B. Elmo Scoggin died in his sleep sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning. Scoggin, who would have turned 96 this month, was Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at...
by Martin Marty | Oct 5, 2011 | Opinion
Preachers, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams number in the hundreds of thousands in the United States. They minister at the borders between what gets tabbed “sacred” and “secular” realms, and as such cannot go unnoticed in public media. Some...
