by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 9, 2009 | Opinion
This is a day for wondering at our house … not about where the stock market will go today, or whether the weather will remain nice, or what we should do for supper.For Jan and me, today is a day for wandering the halls of memory that are getting old but not...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 8, 2009 | Opinion
Conservatives question my salvation, while liberals question my intelligence. This is what it means to be a Latino or Latina who insists on understanding reality from their social location; of reading the Bible with their own eyes; of doing ethics from the margins of...
by Robert Parham | Mar 8, 2009 | Opinion
Americans of faith and those unaffiliated with a faith group agree that fixing the economy should be the government’s first priority, according to a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life analysis. A Pew survey found that 83 percent of white evangelical Protestants...
by Britt Towery | Mar 8, 2009 | Opinion
Texas’ greatest storyteller, Horton Foote, died March 4. He was a literary genius unmatched in Texas (and there have been many contenders: Katherine Ann Porter, Larry McMurtry, Elmer Kelton and William Sidney Porter, also known as O. Henry). The footlights of...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 8, 2009 | Opinion
OK, maybe somebody else has noticed this already. But I’m just a casual music listener — yet philosophical enough to put such stuff together.Cute little singer Taylor Swift has a song called “Tim McGraw.” (My younger daughter’s musical taste is...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2009 | Opinion
When Leena Lavanya was born in the southern region of India, her grandparents were given the charge of raising her – not because her parents did not want her, but because of a longstanding tradition among the Telugu people: the first child is to be raised by the...
