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...
by Frank Rees | Oct 17, 2017 | Opinion
The state and federal governments of Australia all agreed on new “security” measures to address what they call terrorist threats. These measures, adopted a few weeks ago, sit in a long line of actions taken since September 2001, which have actually...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 18, 2017 | Opinion
Last Monday was the somber 16th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks: A plane went down in a Pennsylvania field, another plowed into the side of the Pentagon, and two became passenger-bearing bombs that brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center....