Editorials & Opinions

EDITORIAL: In crisis mode
By Jim White, Editor
Date April 17, 2008

I’m not crazy about the smell of burning wires. Especially at 30,000 feet.

SECOND OPINION: The utilitarian temptation
By David Gushee
Date April 17, 2008

A few weeks ago, I was reminded in a news article that Judge Paul Pressler had actually said, at the beginning of the Southern Baptist controversy, that his side must “go for the jugular.” This is an image of slaying the enemy, of doing whatever you must do to win. The theme came up again as I was reading about internal debates in the Obama campaign over whether to “hit” Hillary with attacks. Hillary has opened the door with her own “hit” jobs on Obama during their protracted struggle.

OUT LOUD
Date April 17, 2008

FAITHSHAPERS: The searching phase
By Bruce Powers
Date April 17, 2008

As our children enter adolescence, they are beginning a phase of searching that will last through much of their young adulthood. There are a number of developmental, physical and psychological reasons for this phase, but for our purposes the key is that their minds are now fully functional. With the limitations of childhood thinking now gone, teens are able to think in more abstract, analytical ways.