by Michael Ruffin | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
My name is Mike – and I’m a moderate. There, I said it and I feel better. I’m a practical moderate. I try to live a moderate lifestyle, doing little to excess – except when I find a dish of real banana pudding.  I’m a political moderate; on some...
by Bob Allen | Nov 9, 2007 | News
The chairman of Tennessee’s Democratic Party says it’s time that progressive religious voices stop being drowned out by the Religious Right. “We need to start making our voices heard again,” Gray Sasser, a Nashville attorney elected in January...
by Robert Parham | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Goodwill is an energetic, positive word. It’s a proactively muscular word. It contains enough self-definition that further commentary is unnecessary in casual conversation. Let’s start describing ourselves as the goodwill Baptists. Let’s drop the...
by Robert Parham | Aug 16, 2006 | Opinion
Bloggers are shaping public opinion. Evidence abounds that Web loggers have developed some muscle. Evidence abounds that Web loggers have developed some muscle. They are credited with helping to defeat Sen. Joe Lieberman last week in Connecticut’s Democratic...
by Bob Allen | Apr 26, 2006 | News
Women have come a long way in moderate Baptist ministry in four decades, but groups like the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship need to do far more to match their walk with their talk when it comes to opening pulpits to female pastors, a historian told a state CBF...
