Learning from the Past

Bands will play. Men and women in uniform will march. Bugles will sound the haunting notes of taps. Rifle volleys will signal the fall of

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When Baptist Politics Heats Up

The simmering political differences among Alabama Baptists became a front burner issue during April. “For the Record,” an Alabama Public Television program, devoted two episodes

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The Battle in Bethlehem

The place is a Christian place, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It is the site where first century leader Justin Martyr said Jesus

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Islam’s Democracy Deficit

The observation was tucked away in the next-to-last paragraph of a two-page report on the status of democracy in the world. The statement observed that

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Into Thy Hands

The sun was dark. The veil guarding the entrance to the holy of holies in the Jerusalem temple had been ripped into, Luke writes. Jesus,

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