by Joe Phelps | Feb 17, 2009 | Opinion
My eyes wandered beyond the sermon text to an addendum to the healing story of Naaman the leper by Elisha, the prophet of God. When Elisha refused payment for the healing, a servant decided to cash in. He caught up with Naaman and fibbed that Elisha reconsidered and...
by Joe Phelps | Jan 6, 2009 | Opinion
On New Year’s a friend e-mailed a proposal for peace by popular author Deepak Chopra. This friend used to be normal: a grandmother, a secretary, the organist in a Baptist church. Somewhere along the way a passion awoke in her about how America might become a nation of...
by Joe Phelps | Dec 30, 2008 | Opinion
A wrong turn put me on a street that dead-ended into one of Louisville’s Catholic cemeteries I’d not visited before. I took it as an opportunity to pay my respects for these unknown citizens from days gone by. With my car in low gear I began to wend my way through the...
by Joe Phelps | Aug 5, 2008 | Opinion
I’m a big fan of God, but the governor’s proposal to allow Kentuckians to opt for car license tags that replace the state slogan “Unbridled Spirit” with “In God We Trust” seems like a nice idea with complicated and confusing...
by Joe Phelps | Apr 9, 2008 | Opinion
The Ten Commandments belong in communities of faith, not in public places.So it was affirmed again last week, this time by U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley Jr. in an ongoing attempt by the religious right to place them at the courthouse in Grayson County, Ky. How...
