by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 5, 2008 | Opinion
The Hawaiian language has the shortest alphabet in the world: just seven consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, and w) and five vowels (a, e, i, o, u). The preponderance of liquid sounds gives it an almost ethereal quality that makes it a joy to hear, or even to read, whether...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2008 | Opinion
On Feb. 22, the Justice Department revealed that an internal ethics review conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the CIA’s use of waterboarding. This forced suffocation and inhalation of water, or as former CIA director Porter...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 4, 2008 | Opinion
Making judgment calls is as important to editors as it is to sports officials. Some times we get it right; sometimes we don’t.One area that requires good judgment, and often restraint, has to do with news coverage of conflicts or other problems within local...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 4, 2008 | Opinion
Hawaiians are passionate about preserving remnants, at least, of their culture, and few things are more important than the hula. For Hawaiian Baptists, the ancient dance is more than a cultural memory, however: the hula can be holy.I suspect that when most of us think...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 4, 2008 | Opinion
Now we have a chance to see what the Religious Right is made of–if it truly stands for ethics and values, as its leaders profess, or whether its leaders can continue to engage in gutter politics and get away with it. According to a report in EthicsDaily.com,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 3, 2008 | Opinion
I write this after almost 23 hours of wakefulness, almost 14 of them spent in airplanes and airports. But I also write with gratitude.I’m in Honolulu, of all places, for a meeting of the Baptist World Alliance Executive Committee and other associated committees...
