by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 30, 2011 | Opinion
I’ve had Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani on my mind a lot this week. It’s hard not to: he’s been sentenced to hang for the crime of converting to Christianity when he was 19. He’s 34 now. First arrested in 2009 when he tried to follow the law...
by Mike Parnell | Sep 30, 2011 | Opinion
I love baseball and – baseball movies. “Field of Dreams,” “The Sandlot” and “The Natural” are some of my favorites. Each has a terrific story set against a diamond backdrop. Baseball once was the most popular professional sport, but...
by Larry Greenfield | Sep 30, 2011 | Opinion
Sympathy toward an absentee landlord, difficult though it may be, is exactly what the Gospel writers ask of us in a narrative assigned to the voice of Jesus. (See Matthew 21:33-46, Mark 12:1-12 and Luke 20:9-19.) The story goes basically like this: A landowner decides...
by Robert Parham | Sep 30, 2011 | Opinion
The Baylor University report on “The Values and Beliefs of the American Public” found that 40.9 percent of Americans “strongly agree” and 32.2 percent “agree” that “God has a plan for them.” What exactly that means is...
by Chuck Warnock | Sep 29, 2011 | Opinion
The recent film “Divided” has attracted national media attention for its critique of age-based church ministries, targeting youth ministry in particular. But despite the film’s message that families should be more involved in faith development in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 29, 2011 | Opinion
Saudi Arabia is striding toward the future – about an inch at a time. And then backward about three-quarters of that. Saudi King Abdullah announced earlier that women in his country would finally get the right to vote and run for office – but not yet. Four years from...
