by Mark Whitten | Dec 29, 2008 | Opinion
“The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Advocates of church-state separation will happily agree with the statement above. It states what they clearly recognize to be the case, that the United States...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 27, 2008 | Opinion
The late sportscaster Skip Carey had the same response to any question involving speculation about the outcome of a yet-to-occur competition: “That’s why they play the game.”Yet speculation is not soothsaying (that suggests one can see into the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 26, 2008 | Opinion
Spending Christmas evening with my parents brought to mind a simpler time when Christmas was a big deal for children, but not quite the production it often is today. Laptops and iPods were still in the distant future, and the most advanced technology under the tree...
by James L. Evans | Dec 26, 2008 | Opinion
New Year’s celebrations have traditionally become a time for us to gather up our hopes and prayers for the coming year and express them in resolutions. I confess to being a resolution maker. Not just about the little things like losing weight and...
by Barry Howard | Dec 26, 2008 | Opinion
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
“Come to Bethlehem and seeChrist Whose birth the angels sing;Come, adore on bended knee,Christ the Lord, the newborn King.”[Art by Rembrandt; words from “Angels We Have Heard on High”] John D. PierceDirector of the Jesus Worldview Initiative at...