by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
I confess that, though I started it twice, I never made it all the way through Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I’m not at all afraid of long books, but I could never stir up much interest in the Napoleonic wars or the aristocratic Russian families affected by...
by Robert Parham | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
Nine days after announcing that he wanted more war in Afghanistan to end the war there, the U.S. president – without a presidential portfolio of accomplishment – accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. As if he were channeling the Christian realist Reinhold Niebuhr,...
by Mike Parnell | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
Joel and Ethan Coen, in my opinion, make great movies, but my opinion is not shared by all. A friend once said that the Coens’ “Raising Arizona,” a favorite of mine, is one of the stupidest movies he had ever seen. And that reflects why the...
by Trey Lyon | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
It’s hard to say the words climate change without evoking passionate feelings. Recently I slid down the slippery slope of attempting to engage a global-warming “skeptic” – online – by trying to fight science with science. The resulting comments (all...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 10, 2009 | Opinion
One Advent tradition in many churches is having a Nativity set in which the cast of characters grows each week until baby Jesus is placed in the empty manger on Christmas Eve. Another is to have a family within the congregation light the appropriate Advent candle,...
by Sean McKenzie | Dec 10, 2009 | Opinion
Immigration reform as a political issue has been lost as we scream at each other endlessly over health care, who to blame for high unemployment, and the relative virtues and vices of Sarah Palin and President Obama. Then along comes Lou Dobbs. Dobbs recently...
