by Michael Helms | Dec 31, 2012 | Opinion
I often hear people say that the reason for our country’s moral decline is because we can’t read the Bible in the classrooms and because we took prayer out of the schools. Recently, former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee was...
by Michael Helms | Dec 27, 2012 | Opinion
Not long ago I sat and watched a couple of boys as they played video games. While the younger boy raced cars, the older boy played a military commando game. The object of the race was obvious: finish first. The object of the commando game was obvious, too: kill all...
by Michael Helms | Nov 29, 2012 | Opinion
The ashy, lifeless Andes Mountains rise above the small village of Cieneguilla, Peru. The evidence of poverty surrounds this place like the mountains. It’s an odd place to make a home. Everything has to be brought here because nothing grows naturally in these...
by Michael Helms | Nov 21, 2012 | Opinion
While walking around in a market in Cieneguilla, Peru, I noticed small bags of pecans hanging up for sale. There, amid many kinds of fruit I couldn’t identify, was a fruit I can walk out of my office and pick up in our church’s parking lot. We have about...
by Michael Helms | Apr 18, 2011 | Opinion
A fellow Rotarian has an intelligent 10-year-old daughter. Already at such an early age, faith and science are colliding in her world, creating tensions she’s trying to reconcile. She asked her father not long ago, “Who came first: Adam and Eve or the...
