by Christina Embree | Mar 22, 2016 | Opinion
We’ve all heard of the Golden Rule. Nearly every culture and every religion have some version of this rule. Some, like the Bible, state it in positive terms: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Others state it in negative terms:...
by Stephen Holmes | Dec 8, 2015 | Opinion
Some moments of real intellectual breakthrough come when I find myself thinking something that surprises me. I am forced to analyze the surprising idea to work out why I was thinking it. Whether the concept turns out to be right, wrong or complicated, I understand...
by Bob Allen | Jan 19, 2007 | News
Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics defended a recently announced meeting of “Golden Rule” Baptists under attack by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. “Baptists are more than Southern Baptists–who are more Southern than...
by Robert Parham | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
Baptists are much more than Southern Baptists, who are more southern than Baptist, more exclusive than inclusive, more theocratic than democratic and more negative than positive. The perception of Baptists as the anti-everything people is one reason that good-will...
by Robert Parham | Dec 18, 2006 | Opinion
Fox News loves little baby Jesus–eternally preserved in swaddling clothes, radiant, helpless, voiceless, surrounded by wise men with gifts, angels in perfect harmony, shepherds with faces of wonderment. Yes, little baby Jesus, the miracle child, the controlled...
