by John D. Pierce | Jun 15, 2010 | Opinion
Creativity in charitable fundraising is be admired. And I’ve witnessed some wild ideas from my many years of hanging around college students.Typically, I don’t drop money in a bucket being pushed toward my car window at an intersection. I prefer seeing a...
by Robert Parham | Jun 14, 2010 | Opinion
Bad religion reverses the biblical imperative to protect the powerless in favor of guarding the powerful. Rather than following Jesus’ manifesto of bringing good news to the poor, some conservative Christians are delivering good news to BP. They are shielding BP...
by David Kerrigan | Jun 14, 2010 | Opinion
Rev. Tim Alban Jones, vicar at St. Andrew’s Church in Soham, Cambridgeshire, became nationally known in the worst of circumstances. It was in this quiet market town where 10-year-old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared and were later...
by William Brackney | Jun 14, 2010 | Opinion
As a child growing up in the nation’s capital, I often rode past the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Va. It depicts a striking moment in American history that commemorates the raising of the American flag on a distant island in the Pacific War by a Marine...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 14, 2010 | Opinion
I can’t say I’ve always been a morning person, but I am now, and I like it that way. I don’t need an alarm clock to get up before our part of the globe turns its face to the sun, when the darkness rests like a blanket on the ground, punctuated here and there by...
by Bill Wilson | Jun 13, 2010 | Opinion
Have you learned that nothing “goes without saying” anymore? That sobering truth runs counter to our tendency to think there are some universally shared assumptions that all of us agree upon. We may think that everyone agrees with us about what a family...
