by Laura Seay | Sep 28, 2010 | Opinion
I’m headed home from a couple of days at United Nations Week in New York, where I was fortunate to attend several events relating to a review of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals. The events brought home one very clear fact for me: Western thinking...
by Robert Parham | Jun 22, 2007 | Opinion
Australian Baptists account for only an estimated 1.6 percent of the Australian population, but they played an important role in getting their government to reverse its declining foreign aid budget and to pledge an increase from $2.5 billion to $4 billion by 2010....
by Bob Allen | May 2, 2007 | News
Alabama’s Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has launched a “Let Justice Roll Down” initiative to bring a goodwill Baptist public witness to bear on issues like racism, poverty, equality of women, education and constitutional reform. Kicked off at last...
by Brent McDougal | Apr 26, 2007 | Opinion
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote to Alabama clergymen his open Letter from Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. The religious leaders questioned King’s tactics and timing, arguing for negotiation over direct action, forbearance over acquiescence to unjust laws,...
by John McKinnon | Apr 4, 2007 | Opinion
We have reached the halfway point of the program to halve global poverty by 2015. Members of the United Nations, including Australia, agreed to this target at the Millennium Summit in 2000. The halftime score is not looking good. While some regions are on track to...
