by Jeannie Babb Taylor | Mar 18, 2009 | Opinion
Whether we are parents, teachers or just adults observing teenagers at the mall or the movie theater, it is easy to give in to the sentiment that kids today are a real mess, and therefore our society is headed for trouble. Major news carriers have nothing good to say...
by Chuck Warnock | Mar 18, 2009 | Opinion
Every church I have served has had some high-needs members. These are the folks who have personality disorders, mental challenges or barriers to living that require the help of others regularly. Your church probably has some of these folks who are made in God’s image,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 18, 2009 | Opinion
North Carolina is among other states that are looking at “sin taxes” as a relatively easy means for increasing revenue — easy, so long as they can get by the powerful tobacco and alcohol lobbies.There’s just one thing wrong with sin taxes...
by James Browning | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
“I swear by God, I shall not surrender as a humiliated person, and I shall not escape like slaves,” said Husayn ibn Ali. The Shi’ite Muslim holiday of Ashura remembers the death of Husayn, Muhammad’s grandson, with mourning, symbolic chest...
by Britt Towery | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
A Nigerian-based church is locating just seven miles from my wife, Jody’s, hometown. The tiny town of Floyd, Texas, between Farmersville and Greenville, will soon have Africa’s largest and most ambitious evangelical church–The Redeemed Christian...
by John E. Roberts | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
Remember the book of Esther from Sunday school? The boys yawned and waited for the lesson on Daniel, but the girls loved the beautiful queen, an exemplary heroine who saved her people. Victims become victors in Esther. However, there is much more in the book of...
