by James L. Evans | Oct 28, 2004 | Opinion
Halloween is upon us. The holiday falls on a Sunday this year and since some folks are a bit squeamish about Halloween in the first place, many communities are observing the day on Saturday night. So, either Saturday or Sunday, depending on where you live, get ready...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 27, 2004 | Opinion
Late-night comedian Jay Leno described our present presidential election as extremely diverse–a contest between a rich privileged white man from Yale running against a rich privileged white man from Yale. During a recent conference I attended, Martin Luther King...
by Cary Clack | Oct 22, 2004 | Opinion
The great revelation of this election year is that God and his son are partisan political junkies. The second great revelation is the certainty of some people about the political leanings of Jesus. In Carrboro, N.C., two University of North Carolina students slapped...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 22, 2004 | Opinion
When Joel Sonnenberg was 22 months old, a car accident at a New Hampshire toll booth burned him severely. More than 85 percent of his body suffered third-degree burns. That was Sept. 15, 1979. He’s also an author, having completed Joel, a first-person account of...
by Jan Turrentine | Oct 22, 2004 | Opinion
Her decision defies logic and flies in the face of cultural expectations. She left a life of privilege in Beverly Hills to live in a 10-foot concrete cell with no hot water at La Mesa prison in Tijuana, Mexico. Her closest neighbors are murderers, thieves and drug...
by Ron Sisk | Oct 21, 2004 | Opinion
Into his 10th decade now, Baptist ethicist, author and preacher Henlee Barnette continues his unflinching call to Christian integrity in thought and action. His career spans seven decades of Baptist history in the South. From the time of his conversion as a teenager...
