by Drew Smith | Feb 17, 2009 | Opinion
The Arkansas House passed a bill earlier this week that would lift a ban on guns being carried into houses of worship. The measure is now heading to the Arkansas Senate for a vote. Growing up in rural Arkansas, I have come to accept the plethora of guns in the state....
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Feb 17, 2009 | Opinion
During a talk on Judaism delivered at a synagogue last week, I nonchalantly mentioned that I thought of myself as a humanist. I went on to define this as someone who assumed that all systems of belief were of human origin reflecting human biases, concerns and...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 17, 2009 | Opinion
During my college years in the ’70s, we made a point of finishing on time. In fact, a Bachelor degree was often referred to as a “four-year degree.”Only a slacker would drag things out much longer, eliciting the explanation that “he crammed...
by Andy Watts | Feb 16, 2009 | Opinion
Is it really better for government and religion to stay out of each other’s affairs? This is a question that Joshua DuBois, the new director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships established by President Barack Obama, most likely...
by David McCollum | Feb 16, 2009 | Opinion
Former pastors, ministers and staff members at Second Baptist Church in Little Rock gathered there recently on the church’s 125th anniversary to dialogue about ministry. Their discussion not only illuminated how one downtown church has survived in the same location...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 16, 2009 | Opinion
Not today, or tomorrow. Probably not for several years, and certainly not as a soldier — but I want to go to Iraq. I want to go as a tourist, a student, a pilgrim of sorts. I want to see where Western civilization was born, where writing was invented, where...
