by Kathy Pickett | Dec 25, 2007 | Opinion
Every year at Christmas I take a week of vacation either before or after the holiday. This year I took off the week before. Knowing that things might be hectic in the church office I thought I had everything lined up and taken care of related to adopted Christmas...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 25, 2007 | Opinion
You don’t have to know much about propositions, resolutions and fallacies to appreciate “The Great Debaters,” which opens Christmas Day.Denzel Washington, who also directed the picture, stars as Mel Tolson, a professor at the African-American Wiley...
by Dale Stinson | Dec 25, 2007 | Opinion
Rarely has a movie experience taken me to places in my childhood I have long since forgotten. Many movies make me wish I were a child again, but few films make me feel like a child. The story that unfolds in “The Water Horse,” however, transported me back...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2007 | Opinion
Today’s paper reports that credit card trouble is on the rise as folks who took out bigger mortgages than they were able to pay are discovering that they can’t pay for all the stuff they charged on credit cards, either. Both delinquencies and defaults are...
by James L. Evans | Dec 24, 2007 | Opinion
As we make our way to Christmas Day when millions of Christians worldwide celebrate the birth of Jesus, perhaps it’s worth asking, “Who is Jesus?” For many, Jesus is first and foremost the Savior of the world. He was born to die, many churches teach,...
by Barry Howard | Dec 24, 2007 | Opinion
Through the years I have enjoyed observing countless living nativity scenes during the holiday season. Most of these scenes are staged on the lawns of church campuses or they are incorporated into annual Christmas pageants. Many of the scenes include both human...
