by James L. Evans | May 16, 2011 | Opinion
I worked with a preacher once who was convinced we were living in history’s last days. He was sure Jesus was about to return in what Christians call the “second coming.” In what I thought was a bizarre act of lunacy, he put off buying his car tags, which were due on a...
by Leroy Seat | May 16, 2011 | Opinion
Pope Leo XIII issued the momentous encyclical Rerum Novarum (“Of New Things”) 120 years ago, on May 15, 1891. Leo XIII, who had been the pope for 25 years when he died in 1903, began his 1891 encyclical (formal statement sent to the bishops) by talking...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 13, 2011 | Opinion
Last night I attended a performance of the musical Hair: the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, which I had not seen before. I became familiar with the music when it first came out — or at least with the tamer songs like “Aquarius,”...
by Mike Parnell | May 13, 2011 | Opinion
The summer movie season began with Marvel Studios’ “Thor,” an adaptation of their comic based on Norse mythology. The impetuous son of Odin, Thor (Chris Hemsworth), is full of bluster and arrogance. Odin (Anthony Hopkins) attempts to groom Thor to...
by Larry Greenfield | May 13, 2011 | Opinion
My guess is that whenever most of us associate Jesus and sheep, the first thing that comes to mind about Jesus is that he’s the shepherd. But that isn’t what the writer of the Gospel of John records as Jesus’ own first association about himself and...
by John D. Pierce | May 12, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce When news that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had been found and killed by well-trained Navy SEALs, members of Christian Bible Fellowship Church in Newville, Penn., were particularly proud that their pastor once served among that squad of heroes....
