by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
My wife and I went to see the national touring company of “Grease” at the Durham Performing Arts Center, and we both came away a bit disappointed. The show’s marketing efforts are built around having former American Idol winner Taylor Hicks play...
by Robert Parham | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
Millions of American Christians stepped from their pews on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001, into the news about the American attack on Afghanistan. They went from Good News to war news, from worshipping the Prince of Peace to worrying about air strikes in the darkness a world...
by Richard Pierard | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
The story on EthicsDaily.com about Richard Land, who heads Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, comparing President Obama’s proposed health-care reform to the Nazi program offended me more than practically anything else I have seen...
by James L. Evans | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
Several years ago a friend of mine was working as a youth minister for a church that was exuberantly evangelistic. The pastor spoke eloquently and often about “winning the world for Christ.” Unfortunately, the community around the church was “in...
by Ircel Harrison | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
Have you ever noticed that if you talk to the same people all the time, you rarely hear a new idea? Whether these folks are family, co-workers, church members or fans of your athletic team, we tend to hang with those who think, act and feel like we do. While this is...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 8, 2009 | Opinion
Catoosa County, Ga., is a lovely bedroom community just south of Chatta- nooga, Tenn., and the place where I was born and raised. So I’ve paid attention to — but not commented yet — on the unnecessary uproar involving overtly Christian banners that football...