by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 23, 2003 | News
Page McBrier stood by a hand-dug pond on a hillside in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Filled with water diverted from a nearby stream, that pond was home to tilapia, a type of African freshwater fish often raised for food. A chicken coop hovered above the pond. Manure from...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 17, 2003 | Opinion
The qualities that make “Holes” hard to synopsize also make it a good story. But there’s more afoot than simple character-building, as any fan of Louis Sachar’s 1998 award-winning children’s novel can attest. The qualities that make...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 17, 2003 | News
“Baptists have always struggled with the dualism of the social gospel and the good news of salvation,” says Baptist pastor Randy Hyde. “But I think our history proves that we practice the gospel best when we do it on both fronts.” They...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 17, 2003 | News
Heifer Project International is looking to its past successes in war-torn areas to develop an approach to helping build peace in the Middle East. Heifer, based in Little Rock, Ark., has a long history of helping countries rebuild after being devastated by war. Heifer,...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 4, 2003 | Opinion
More than 80 percent of Americans say celebrities’ political opinions don’t affect their own political opinions, according to a recent CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll. But Americans’ self-reporting on this matter seems suspect when one takes cultural trends...
