by Wendell Griffen | Dec 2, 2008 | Opinion
Richard Nixon’s presidency ended after Watergate in disgrace with his resignation. The Bush-Cheney presidency will end on a much more disgraceful note if Scooter Libby is pardoned. Scooter Libby, a former high-powered Washington attorney and political figure...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
About once every two years, I get to see my hometown football team play ball. That’s how often we go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, and the “Lincoln County Red Devils” are inevitably still playing, usually in the third round of the...
by Mark Johnson | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
Can Baptist congregations still be courageous enough to respect, honor and validate the personal and moral choice of members who challenge the Christian mainstream by exercising a renewal of our commitment to the liberty of conscience? Some bishops, as illustrated by...
by Gene Davenport | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
The apostle Paul saw genuine freedom not as the right to do what I want to do, but the responsibility to seek the well-being of others. Self-indulgence is the opposite of freedom. One of the claims by those upset by the generic greeting is that this nation began as a...
by Robert Parham | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
A deeper and prolonged financial crisis will likely result in a survival-of-the-fittest scenario among local and national faith organizations, which, in turn, will reshape the religious ethos for years to come. Local media reports suggest an anxious Salvation Army...
by Britt Towery | Nov 28, 2008 | Opinion
You probably never heard of Folliot Sandford Pierpoint. (With a name like that Obama doesn’t sound strange.) One beautiful spring day in 1864 Folliot was out walking the countryside, admiring the blue sky reflected in the ocean, the ambling AvonRiver with its...
