FIRST-PERSON: The improbability of Poland
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--The British historian and author Norman Davies titled his epic two-volume history of Poland and its people, "God's Playground."
BERLIN WALL RETROSPECTIVE: True freedom
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--The memory is clear in my mind. I was standing looking at the Berlin Wall.
A Half Century of Serving Christ
Fiftieth birthdays are sometimes tough ordeals. Someone has described turning 50 as a bit like canoeing down a river and suddenly hearing the waterfalls ahead. Time is obviously getting short, and for the vast majority of us who have turned 50, life is well over one-half finished. We sometimes want to put a humorous twist […]
FIRST-PERSON: Checking the facts amid vacuous pluralism
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Comments by pastor Jerry Vines of First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Fla., as to the person and character of the prophet Muhammad have evoked a flurry of activity in the press. In an age of religious inclusivism and pluralism, nothing is guaranteed to awaken a religious press corps more than comments from a Southern Baptist preacher that appear to slander and scandalize the founder of the world's second-largest religious movement.
