by Bill Wilson | Dec 15, 2009 | Opinion
After 33 years in the local church pastoral ministry, sitting on the receiving side of the pulpit is a very different way to spend a Sunday morning. The transition is proving to be a provocative, illuminating and sobering experience. Some parts are extremely...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 14, 2009 | Opinion
With my schedule based on a university calendar and a son in a year round middle school, our family is prone to taking vacations at odd times of the year.So here we are, in the middle of December, in a nearly deserted oceanfront resort in Virginia Beach. From our...
by James L. Evans | Dec 14, 2009 | Opinion
A Baptist scholar and ethicist declared recently that the conflict in Afghanistan is an unjust war. Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, wrote in his column at EthicsDaily.com that President Obama’s decision to increase troop size...
by Sybil D. Smith | Dec 14, 2009 | Opinion
Hard data from the 1990s showed that beginning about now, our healthcare system would be in crisis because baby boomers would be retiring and living longer than previous retirees. The new retirees would be expecting to draw Social Security and use Medicare for many...
by Chuck Warnock | Dec 14, 2009 | Opinion
A new study reveals a specific link between luxury goods and selfishness. Two experiments showed that “exposure to luxury led people to think more about themselves than others,” according to a Harvard Business School paper. Roy Y. J. Chua and Xi Zou...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 12, 2009 | Opinion
Religious faith fascinates me. Maybe that’s why for so much of my life I have studied it, reported on it and tried to practice (with ongoing adjustments) a version that seems right and good to me.Even before entering a second career some 16 years ago, in which...
