by John D. Pierce | Nov 3, 2009 | Opinion
One generational shift seems to be less secrecy about age. Older adults seem more comfortable today beginning a sentence with: “Now that I’m 80…”An early lesson for most of us was the impropriety of asking an adult’s (especially a...
by Karen Spears Zacharias | Nov 3, 2009 | Opinion
When I was a young girl, I had an albino friend. Annie’s hair was as light and wispy as cotton candy. Her eyes as pink as Valentine Sweet-Tarts. At church, whenever we sang that song about Jesus washing me whiter than snow, I thought of her. Annie’s skin...
by Monty Self | Nov 3, 2009 | Opinion
On Sept. 29-30, 1941, the Germans with the help of Ukrainian collaborators developed a plan to eliminate the Jewish population of Kiev. Following the invasion of Kiev, 33,771 Jewish residents were rounded up at the old Jewish cemetery and told they were being sent to...
by Neville Callam | Nov 3, 2009 | Opinion
The year 1990 is significant in the emergence of a Christian response to the environmental crisis. It was the year when the important World Convocation on Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation issued the Seoul Declaration. This declaration registered concern...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 2, 2009 | Opinion
With our son visiting a friend, Jan and I boycotted the Hallowe’en candy scene and drove down to Elizabethtown for a concert where local folk had arranged a youth event featuring contemporary Christian groups Chynna and Vaughan, Bluetree, and Newsong. We went...
by Robert Parham | Nov 2, 2009 | Opinion
Baptist pastor Julius Scruggs had to preach wearing an eye patch after taking a blow during a stand-in to integrate a Nashville movie theater in the early 1960s. But he didn’t lose his moral vision. And two lawsuits over his recent election as president of the...
