by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 23, 2010 | Opinion
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have produced a powerful new software program that has the potential of helping scholars resurrect ancient languages that so far have proven impenetrable.Using Ugaritic as a test case, researchers fed the...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 22, 2010 | Opinion
1. You thought “peacethatpassesunderstanding” was one word.2. You missed more episodes of “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” than you saw because of Sunday night services.3. You thought the tablets Moses brought down from the mountain were written in the King’s...
by Robert Parham | Jul 22, 2010 | Opinion
Having celebrated last year in Amsterdam the founding of the Baptist faith tradition 400 years ago, global Baptists turn this year in Honolulu to the future. When the Baptist World Alliance invited Baptists to attend the 20th Baptist World Congress, it beckoned...
by Drew Smith | Jul 22, 2010 | Opinion
One of the Internet sites I frequently visit is operated by a grassroots organization known as Faithful America. Its focus is to get people of faith to address the pressing moral issues of our time, such as poverty, immigration, climate change and peace. As their...
by Chuck Queen | Jul 22, 2010 | Opinion
Charlie Pearl, staff writer for the Frankfort State Journal, recently interviewed Wendell Berry in the aftermath of Berry’s decision to move many of his personal papers, which measure 60 cubic feet in volume, from the University of Kentucky archives. Berry, who...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 21, 2010 | Opinion
Walking the dog for several early morning miles allows the mind to wander along little-used pathways of thought and to raise questions that wouldn’t ordinarily occur.This morning, for example, as I trailed behind our forever-curious canine, I wondered what it...
