by Imam Imad Enchassi | Apr 17, 2020 | Opinion
On April 19, 1995, the morning of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing, a friend of mine, Ibrahim Ahmad, was leaving to the airport to visit his family in Jordan. The plan was for him to visit his family in Jordan while his wife traveled to visit her family in...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 16, 2020 | Opinion
On April 19, 1995, I was a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. As I walked into my midmorning class that day, a television was broadcasting a scene that confounded me. Breaking news indicated an explosion in downtown Oklahoma...
by Robert Parham | Sep 13, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Sept. 11, 2001. At the time of publication, Parham (1953-2017) was the executive director of Baptist Center for Ethics / EthicsDaily.com. It is republished today in commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the 9/11...
by Blake Hart | Jan 18, 2019 | Opinion
I’m not the first, nor will I be the last to point out how Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall,” critiques current conversations about building a wall on our southern border. In the poem, Frost and his neighbor are doing their annual ritual of mending the wall that...
by Don Gordon | Nov 7, 2017 | Opinion
We have been inundated in recent days with news of random killings, racial killings and retributive killings by terrorists. The saying once was popular, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Never have we yearned for this to be so true since the recent...
