Making Lemonade to Fight Cancer

by | Oct 25, 2005 | Opinion

You might think that 3-year-old children are too young to learn about cancer. You might think that cancer is a topic too heavy and deep for a teacher to be discussing with 3-year-olds. Under most circumstances that might be true. But Jan Smith’s kindergarten...

Should We Look for God in Every Storm?

by | Sep 23, 2005 | Opinion

Should we look for God in every storm? I’ve been mulling over that question a lot since Katrina rudely interrupted the lives of our Gulf Coast neighbors and Hurricane Rita now gains strength and threatens another part of the Gulf Coast region. Many people,...

Maybe All is Not Gone With the Wind

by | Sep 7, 2005 | Opinion

These are perilous times. As I write this article on Friday, New Orleans continues to fill up with water as if it were a large bowl tipped over to take on a strange mixture of soup. The city’s a soup of debris, toxic chemicals, decaying matter, and even dead...

The True Nature of Fundamentalism

by | Aug 30, 2005 | Opinion

I want to thank Pat Robertson for helping people understand the true nature of fundamentalism. For many years it’s been a little confusing to some. Even the word “Christian” is confusing these days. Not everyone defines “Christian” in the...