by Ircel Harrison | Feb 14, 2010 | Opinion
Our county’s chamber of commerce just named the pastor of a local nondenominational megachurch as the “business person of the year.” He was cited for growing the church from 150 members to more than 6,000 in 30 years. The citation goes on to say,...
by Mitch Carnell | Feb 14, 2010 | Opinion
Until we moved when I was in the sixth grade, I lived diagonally across the street from our church and the parsonage. Our pastor and his wife and two daughters were our friends. I was in and out of his home and study often. I was always a welcomed guest. As a child...
by James L. Evans | Feb 14, 2010 | Opinion
For the past several years various leaders have introduced bills that would allow Alabamians to decide for ourselves whether to rewrite our outdated and cumbersome state constitution. The same is true this year. Senate Bill 177, Senate Joint Resolution 42 and House...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 13, 2010 | Opinion
While our 16-year-old brushed up for her French exam — by chatting with a tennis-playing Frenchman who attends Mercer University — I sipped on a white mocha and worked on my own vocabulary. The coffee shop walls held decorative signs with definitions of words related...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 12, 2010 | Opinion
ABP reported Feb. 11 a bit of good news in the ongoing struggle to maintain healthy boundaries between church and state: a special panel has recommended to President Obama that churches wanting to receive federal funding for social ministries should set up a separate...
by Robert Parham | Feb 11, 2010 | Opinion
As the Catholic Church believed in the age of Galileo that the sun revolved around the earth, many conservatives believe in the age of climate change that the world revolves around the United States. They think if it’s cold here it must be cold everywhere. They...
