CHRISTMAS: I deserve the coal
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--I'm not opposed to Santa Claus. I understand why many Christians are uncomfortable with the myth of Santa and respect their decision.
FIRST-PERSON: Greed or no greed?
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--I don’t watch much television. In fact, if you don’t count the morning news program playing in the background while I am getting dressed and groomed in the morning, then I typically spend less than eight hours a week watching the tube. And if there is not a sporting event I want to watch that week, the number drops to about five hours. We don’t even have cable at the Finn house -- we plug the set into the wall, adjust the “rabbit ears” and on a good day pick up about six channels of varied fuzziness.
FIRST-PERSON: Pregnancy and a consistent ethic of life
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--One of the ongoing battlegrounds in America’s culture war is the debate over the intrinsic value of human life. To many conservative evangelicals, “the sanctity of human life” is a buzzword for one or two moral issues, typically abortion and euthanasia. Both practices are terrible, but the sanctity of human life surely encompasses more than simply beginning and end-of-life concerns.
FIRST-PERSON: Weblogs and the Ninth Commandment
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--I am in my mid-20s, and like many people in my generation, my life is tied to the Internet.
FIRST-PERSON: Baptist history and Baptist ministry
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Those who do not know their past are doomed to repeat it.
FIRST-PERSON: Hurricane Katrina: How can we help?
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--We are all glued to the news. On television, we continually see images of the unbelievable devastation of the Gulf Coast.
FIRST-PERSON: Why vote values?
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--My Sunday School teacher is facing a dilemma.
FIRST-PERSON: The Religious Left & the sufficiency of Scripture
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--In the ongoing culture war in American life, the Religious Left is jockeying for a voice in the debate.
FIRST-PERSON: Who killed Jesus?
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The controversy over Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” has renewed a debate that has been raging off and on for the last two millennia: Who is responsible for the death of Jesus Christ? Several answers have been offered, each one with a unique twist on the event.
FIRST-PERSON: The new ‘metrosexuality’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--For those people who have become bored with the numerous terms used to identify human sexuality (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, etc.), a new term is making headway in some arenas. Enter the metrosexual.
