by Jim Hill | Oct 7, 2010 | Opinion
Our world is filled with hungry people. Hunger, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1971), has three meanings: · The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food. · The want or...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 6, 2010 | Opinion
My first computer had no hard drive, just slots for two 5 1/4 in. floppy disks — one with the operating system, the other for data storage. Memory for the storage disk was measured in kilobytes. My next one had a very small hard drive and took an additional 3...
by Ron Crawford | Oct 6, 2010 | Opinion
Did you see Jim Furyk’s $11 million golf shot? The man with a golf swing like “an octopus falling out of a tree” made a great shot out of a wet sand bunker, leaving a two-and-a-half foot putt to win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup playoff....
by Ayman Ibrahim | Oct 6, 2010 | Opinion
On Sept. 21, in a Coptic Orthodox conference in Egypt, Bishop Bishoy, head of the Coptic Church’s theological council, wondered whether some verses in the Quran were written during Muhammad’s life or might have been inserted later during the time of the...
by Robert Parham | Oct 6, 2010 | Opinion
Cliff Vaughn and I crisscrossed the United States over the past year interviewing members of three Abrahamic faith traditions for a documentary about how they read their sacred texts and apply those moral teachings in the public square to taxation. Yes, we tackled...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 5, 2010 | Opinion
A new poll released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed results that seem quite surprising at first. On a pop quiz of religious knowledge, people who identified themselves as atheists and agnostics scored better than anyone who identified with a...