by James L. Evans | Aug 21, 2009 | Opinion
We seem to have arrived at the end of sanity. Fear, anger and raw political manipulation have become the new world disorder – at least in America. Members of Congress trying to hold town hall meetings on health care reform are being shouted down by angry mobs of...
by Robert Parham | Aug 19, 2009 | Opinion
Covering a health-care rally on Aug. 13 in Nashville, the Tennessean reported, “Anti-reformers at the rally argued against government control of health-care delivery, particularly the use of translators for patients who do not speak English.” Fox...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 7, 2009 | News
Baptists of various races gathered Thursday in Norman, Okla., for a discussion that a prominent Southern Baptist African-American pastor called “courageous, prophetic and appropriate.” Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington,...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard University history professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, was arrested July 16 on a charge of disorderly conduct. Someone phoned the Cambridge (Mass.) Police...
by David McCollum | Jul 3, 2009 | News
HOUSTON, Texas — A panel attempted to unravel several tangled strands from “Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism” during a screening of the award-winning documentary at the Baptist Center for Ethics luncheon at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Assembly July...
