by Chuck Warnock | Jul 12, 2011 | Opinion
I was recently talking to a friend, Jim Stovall, who teaches journalism at the University of Tennessee and is a pioneer in developing and teaching web journalism. In our conversation about how the internet is changing newspapers and journalism, Jim said: “I tell...
by Charles Kimball | Jul 12, 2011 | Opinion
The ringleader of the Sept. 11 terrorists, Muhammad Atta, left behind a five-page letter detailing the meticulous planning and preparation for the hijackings and attacks. It also revealed the particular understanding of Islam that supplied the framework and motivation...
by Robert Parham | Jul 11, 2011 | Opinion
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a study last week that reported on American girth – the obesity epidemic – which is nowhere heftier than in the South. “The obesity epidemic continues to be most dramatic in the...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 9, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce Few things disgust me like slick TV preachers preying on the aging and the ignorant for their own financial gain. I try to avoid them but sometimes my channel surfing leads me there. Most often I move ahead quickly — but other times I watch the...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 8, 2011 | Opinion
Confusion about the “real” meaning of Jesus’ familiar (and evidently authentic) parable of the sower and the seed could have a simple explanation: He was just having a bad day on all sorts of fronts. After all, most of that day had been spent being...
by Gary Furr | Jul 8, 2011 | Opinion
I immediately zoned in to the opening scenes of Terrence Malick’s new movie, “The Tree of Life,” when the haunting quotation appeared from Job 38. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth … when the morning stars sang...
