by Mitch Carnell | Sep 6, 2011 | Opinion
Carol and I left New York City on Sept. 2, 2001, after seeing “The Music Man” the night before on Broadway. Nothing could have prepared us for what lay ahead. “The Music Man” is about as American and apple pie as any show can be. It portrays...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 5, 2011 | Opinion
Labor Day seems an appropriate time to express thanksgiving for the work of Eugene Nida, without whom millions of people might yet be waiting for a Bible they could read. Nida (pronounced Nye-duh), who died August 25 at the age of 96, was a native of Oklahoma City and...
by Ircel Harrison | Sep 4, 2011 | Opinion
Unless you have been on a mission trip to Mongolia or experiencing power failures from hurricanes, earthquakes or tornadoes, you’ve heard that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple due to health issues. Manyarticles extol Jobs’ virtues as a visionary and...
by Robert Parham | Sep 4, 2011 | Opinion
Christian Right leader Jay Sekulow and his family members have benefited handsomely from two nonprofit organizations that he runs – Christian Advocates Servicing Evangelism (CASE) and American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), according to an in-depth story in the...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 2, 2011 | Opinion
Thirty-six years ago, I enrolled for my first semester of studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. That was before the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, which made the seminary a ghost town. In the mid-1970s,...
by Larry Greenfield | Sep 2, 2011 | Opinion
As I approach my 70th, I’m spending more time remembering how fortunate I was to have been raised in a loving family, where, as an only child, I was treated as something special. For health reasons, my mother was explicitly told not to risk what would likely be...
