by Robert Parham | Sep 23, 2011 | Opinion
Legendary football coach Bobby Bowden spoke at the first Baptist Center for Ethics conference in 1992. The now retired Florida State University coach drew to an ethics conference folk who probably would never have attended an ethics conference. His presence and...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Sep 22, 2011 | Opinion
We Jews are in the early weeks of our fall holy day period. There are three parts to this season that are of spiritual interest: Selichot, Yamim Noraim and Sukkot. The month of Elul is the final month of the Jewish liturgical calendar and is devoted to the practice of...
by Chuck Queen | Sep 22, 2011 | Opinion
Some Christians have a narrow understanding of salvation that makes it all about the afterlife (going to heaven). They think they know who has it and who doesn’t, who’s in and who’s out, and they consider the work of the church to be largely about...
by Martin Marty | Sep 22, 2011 | Opinion
The late superstar economist Milton Friedman once delivered himself of a world-weary judgment by reference to the late economist John Maynard Keynes, that “we” – Americans? – “are all Keynesians now.” We weren’t, and we aren’t, and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 21, 2011 | Opinion
Today is World Peace Day, though you wouldn’t know it from all the hatred, heat, and smoke rising from discussions at the United Nations, the halls of Congress, or most any place that campaining politicians happen to be. Peace Day happily coincides with...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 21, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The remarks below are excerpted from a speech given by Bruce Prescott at a peace conference Sept. 14 in Ames, Iowa. Peace (shalom) in the Hebrew Bible means more than the mere absence of conflict and strife. It speaks about the joy, prosperity,...
