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Previous Essays

4 November 2007, Torture

23 July 2007, Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Spoiler Alert!

11 July 2007, Will the Pope's Pronouncement Set Ecumenism Back a Hundred Years?

15 June 2007, A Paean to the Spurs, Based on 2 Samuel 23:8-39, with apologies to David's "Mighty Men"

5 May 2007, Guns and Roses

27 April 2007, Real Heroes

7 February 2007, Evolution Sunday: A Middle Path in the Creation-Evolution Debate (by Robert Cornwall)

30 December 2006, Is Saddam's Death a Step toward Democracy in Iraq?

6 December 2006, DC Voting Rights

28 September 2006, American Values

14 August 2006, Losers: The Israeli-Lebanese Conflict in Retrospect

26 July 2006, What Is Terrorism?

19 July 2006, Stem Cells and Real People: Are Human Embryos Worth More than Living Lebanese?

17 July 2006, The Environment and Christian Responsibility

24 June 2006, Southern Baptist Convention Bans Jesus from Denominational Committees

14 June 2006, Poetics of Peace (by Lon A. Rycraft)

7 June 2006, Interview with Chairwoman of the Texas Republican Party

31 May 2006, Court Watch: Whistleblowers & Boy Scouts

8 April 2006, Leaks in the White House

26 March 2006, Closed Borders, Closed Hearts

19 February 2006, Muhammad goes to Denmark: A Free Press and Religious Sensibilities

20 December 2005, Science and the Bible

10 December 2005, The Body Count Hits 1000: Capital Punishment and the Failure of Christianity

4 December 2005, That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain

25 September 2005, Why I Will Vote against Texas HJR 6, the "Texas Marriage Amendment"

20 September 2005, "An End of All Flesh": Twelve Sins that Led to the Devastation of New Orleans

23 August 2005, Pat Robertson Issues Fatwa against Venezuelan President

20 August 2005, Church Member (poem)

10 August 2005, The Global War against Violent Extremism (cartoon)

25 June 2005, Flag Burning

20 June 2005, The "War" on Terrorism

13 June 2005, Ethnocentered: A New Paradigm (by Diana Adair Bridges)

7 June 2005, Court Watch: Medical Marijuana

3 June 2005, Desecration of Quran Detainees' Fault, Military Says

18 May 2005, Desecrating the Quran

27 April 2005, Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me: The Hard Life of the Persecuted Religious Right

28 March 2005, Life and Death in Florida: Reflections on the Terri Schiavo Case

3 March 2005, Butterfly Epiphany

2 February 2005, Worldview: Learning the House Rules (by Diana Adair Bridges)

21 January 2005, SpongeBob SquarePants: A Menace to Society

11 December 2004, Jesus Christ of the Undocumented

9 December 2004, Alternative Budget 2005

11 November 2004, Arafat's Death a New Chance for Peace

11 November 2004, Family Values

7 November 2004, Ashcroft Charges Moses with Terrorist Threats

2 November 2004, What's Wrong with America?

30 October 2004, Bin Laden Speaks: Will We Listen?

27 October 2004, The Case Against Bush (and a Kerry comparison)

24 October 2004, A Call for Muslim and Christian Leaders to Condemn Terrorism in Iraq

10 October 2004, "Four More Years? What We Can Expect if Bush is Re-elected"

13 September 2004, "Our Lives Come First"

6 August 2004, Ours Not to Reason Why?

16 May 2004, Why Did Abu Ghraib Happen?

15 April 2004, Bush Renounces Peace

15 April 2004, Bush's Critics Are Wrong about His Grammar (This Time)

8 April 2004, Pacifism, Pacification, and Peacemaking

22 March 2004, Israel Assassinates the Founder of Hamas

21 March 2004, The Iraq War: One Year Later

4 February 2004, Bush Makes the Case for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

2 February 2004, If You're Looking for a History Teacher, Don't Hire a Graduate of Georgia's Public Schools

29 January 2004, Evolution and Other Controversial Theories Expelled from Georgia Public Schools

27 January 2004, Pete Rose, Gambling, and the Hall of Fame

20 January 2004, Commentary on President Bush's State of the Union 2004 Speech

7 December 2003, Nine Children Killed in U.S. Bombing in Afghanistan

7 December 2003, Samarra

7 December 2003, Electronic Voting

13 November 2003, Winning the Hearts and Minds of the People of Iraq (cartoon)

6 November 2003, Sliding toward Vietnam

6 November 2003, Urban Legend: Joshua's Missing Day Found! The Legend and a Rebuttal

10 October 2003, The California Recall and Thoughts on Election Reform

5 October 2003, The $87 Billion Question

1 October 2003, Unilateralism or Multilateralism: U.N. Reform and the Future of the World

8 September 2003, Commentary on Bush's Speech on the War on Terrorism

30 August 2003, Bring 'em On! (cartoon)

24 August 2003, Fair and Balanced: PT Changes its Tagline

24 August 2003, I Do/No, You Don't! The Government and Same-Sex Marriage

23 August 2003, Review of Bowling for Columbine, a film by Michael Moore

25 July 2003, Two Georges' Attitudes toward Accepting Responsibility (cartoon)

20 July 2003, Pat Robertson is Right! (Sort of): An Open Letter to Pat Robertson

12 July 2003, The Buck Stops Somewhere Else

26 June 2003, My Reaction to Hearing the News that Noted Fundamentalist Paige Patterson Has Been Hired as President of My Alma Mater, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

19 June 2003, Juneteenth 2003

19 June 2003, Recycle! (a very brief photo essay)

15 June 2003, Why Jessica? What The Birth of a Nation, King Kong, and To Kill a Mockingbird Reveal about the Military/Media Version of the Jessica Lynch Story

12 June 2003, The U.S. Response to Terrorism

4 June 2003, Bumper Stickers

1 May 2003, National Day of Prayer--and Reason

1 May 2003, A Prayer for the Nation and the World on the occasion of the National Day of Prayer (and Reason)

6 Apr 2003, Thoughts on Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" and its Applicability to the War on Iraq

26 Mar 2003, Flying the Flag

26 Mar 2003, New Beatitudes Discovered

19 Mar 2003, The Unjust War Theory

17 Mar 2003, Commentary on Bush's War Speech

15 Mar 2003, Watch Your Back! A Round-Table Discussion on the Ides of March, 2003, with Julius Caesar and other J.C.s

6 Mar 2003, Court Watch: One Nation under God?; Tossing Out the Eighth

5 Mar 2003, A Lenten Call to Pursue Justice

18 Feb 2003, Duct Tape, Diplo-Buffoonery, and a New Hope

12 Feb 2003, What Would Lincoln Do?

5 Feb 2003, A PT Interview with Secretary of State Colin Powell

2 Feb 2003, Who Mourns for the "Others"?


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