by Mike Parnell | May 21, 2010 | Opinion
So many have taken on the story of Robin Hood and turned it into a movie. We have Errol Flynn flying in on a vine to welcome us to Sherwood Forest. Sean Connery comes back as an older Robin Hood after fighting in two crusades. Mel Brooks made fun of the legend...
by David McCollum | May 21, 2010 | Opinion
During a recent workshop in conjunction with a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas assembly, Will Staley and Terrance Clark led a brainstorming exercise about the positive aspects of Helena, an impoverished town in the Arkansas Delta. Ideas included optimizing...
by Francisco MartÃnez Sarita | May 21, 2010 | Opinion
It is as if all things concerning the earthquake, the catastrophe, the dead and so on have been forgotten. As if nothing ever occurred, as if it were false news, a dream that vanished. Nothing has changed among Haitians. Nothing is better, nothing is worse, nobody...
by John D. Pierce | May 20, 2010 | Opinion
This coming Sunday is a time to celebrate the birth of the Christian Church. The story of Pentecost is found in Acts 2. In his passionate sermon, Peter quotes the Old Testament prophet Joel to proclaim the word of God: “I will pour out my Spirit on all people....
by Larry Snyder | May 19, 2010 | Opinion
Remember Gordon Gekko and his famous – infamous – speech in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about how greed is good? Instead of serving as a warning, Americans everywhere jumped on the free-for-all market of the 1980s, adopting this belief in self-interest as...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 19, 2010 | Opinion
Simon Peter would be hopping mad. James and John, the thunderous sons of Zebedee, would be breathing fire. Andrew, perhaps, might be trying in vain to calm their troubled waters: fishing has been banned in the Sea of Galilee. Catch a boat load of fish there now and it...
