by Bruce Prescott | Aug 2, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Oct. 25, 2010. At the time of publication, Prescott was executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, president of the Norman, Oklahoma, chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and host of...
by Roger Olson | Feb 18, 2015 | Opinion
I have read many newspaper columns complaining that atheists are unjustly discriminated against when they are excluded by nonchurch organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and the Boy Scouts. Two specific cases come to mind. First, a few years ago a high school...
by Jim Kelsey | Aug 20, 2014 | Opinion
I still remember clearly a brief conversation I had 20 years ago. At a weekly clergy group meeting, a woman, who had just returned from a trip to Russia where she discovered some Jewish lineage in her distant forbearers, effusively declared, “I’m a white,...
by Bruce Prescott | Oct 25, 2010 | Opinion
I have had an inquiry as to whether religious leaders can work to influence politics without undermining pluralism. My answer is yes. Religious leaders have a moral responsibility to address the injustices they see in society and a civic responsibility to work...
by Gene Davenport | Apr 27, 2009 | Opinion
When the interfaith group of which I am a part began a few years ago, most of the participants wanted to learn about each other’s religions (or, as some put it, each other’s faiths). After a couple of years of monthly meetings, it became evident that among...
