by Fred Guttman | Feb 11, 2010 | Opinion
The following is an imaginary letter from Mo Amramson to President Obama. “Mo,” the son of Amram, is known to most as “Moses,” who led the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness for 40 years. Dear Barack, You know I always felt...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 11, 2010 | Opinion
For decades the mantra of parents and teachers has been: “Make good grades so you can get into a good college.” Now admission counselors are saying that an excellent transcript might not be enough for scholarship seekers. Leadership and service are what tip the...
by Ed Hogan | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion
A Dallas TV station, WFAA, reports that Ed Young Jr., pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, travels in a French-made private jet operated by the church, lives in a 10,000-square-foot home listed under the name of “Palometa Revocable Trust,”...
by Jan Chapman | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion
I have been steeping myself in short stories. It’s all part of the fun of an annual contest I enter, as much for the access it affords to the works of a multitude of creative writers as for the wacky assignments, deadlines and potential contest winnings. It...
by Larry Greenfield | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion
The story about Jesus rebuking the unclean spirit from a child and giving the child back to the parent is pretty small potatoes compared to all the rest that’s going on in Luke 9. We read about Jesus commissioning the disciples, King Herod beginning his plot...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion
For nearly a week, I fought a persistent head and chest cold that dropped my voice by two octaves, when I could use it at all. It was that stuffy-headed, sore-throated, chest-congested, generally miserable feeling that some folks call the “crud.” My late grandmother,...
