by Bruce Prescott | Sep 8, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. My second step away from fundamentalism was set in slow motion...
by Bob West | Sep 8, 2009 | Opinion
Readers who turned to my column on Sundays in the Port Arthur News looking to be entertained with a collection of odds and ends from the sports world recently had to forgive a devastated dad for deviating from the norm. Sports moved to the back burner after I spent a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 7, 2009 | Opinion
With a child in school who could benefit from hearing the president of the United States encourage him to work hard, I’d considered writing a response to the apoplectic folk who are calling for parents to keep their children out of school tomorrow lest President...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 7, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a five-part series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. I went to a Baptist youth camp when I was 15 years old and I...
by Fred Guttman | Sep 7, 2009 | Opinion
The National Socialist Movement, or Nazi Party, held a meeting in Greensboro, N.C., on Aug. 29. We responded with an advertisement in the paper, placed an online petition and wore ribbons in our congregations that weekend. But now that the dust has settled, let us ask...
by Mark Johnson | Sep 7, 2009 | Opinion
Often, a spiritual aspiration is defined as “living fully in the present.” Buddhism embraces the idea of impermanence, or anicca, where all things exist through a unique combination of factors with no single moment ever being exactly the same as it...
