by Frank Lewis | Aug 6, 2018 | Opinion
Four pastors – two black and two white – walked into a bar. Well, not exactly, but close. We had breakfast together, along with five or six men from both churches – First Baptist of Nashville and First Baptist of Capitol Hill. We wanted to find a way to do something...
by Larry Eubanks | Aug 6, 2018 | Opinion
Saying you’re from some place means more than just you were born there. It indicates heritage, culture and roots. I was born in Alabama, but only lived there for seven years, and none of my family is from there. I sometimes tell people I was born in Alabama to...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 3, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Spending time in the American West takes me back to my childhood love of all things cowboy. While riding through expansive Hayden and Lamar valleys in Yellowstone National Park recently, I found myself working up my best TV announcer voice to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 3, 2018 | Opinion
I had the best of intentions, planting that tree, 24 years ago. I’m a sentimental sort, sometimes perhaps overly so, and I was looking for ways to symbolically remember my young daughter Bethany, who had fallen victim to a drunk driver in January 1994. So, I...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 3, 2018 | Opinion
I visited Beirut last week with my friend, Imam Imad Enchassi, revisiting a place that held for him painful memories of violence and massacre at the hands of Christian militants. As I shared yesterday, it is hard to believe Imad did not allow hate to overcome his...
by James Gordon | Aug 3, 2018 | Opinion
The letter of James has some wise warnings about teaching and the qualities needed in a good teacher. The Jewish Wisdom background of James becomes obvious when, more than once, he urges the importance of wisdom, maturity and responsibility in the ways that people use...
