by Jan Turrentine | Sep 26, 2003 | Opinion
Graffiti had long covered the walls of the Allapattah YMCA in Miami, and Cristina von Lindenberg, executive director, was tired of it. After enlisting some artists to create murals on neighborhood walls, she got kids from the Y to help. Painting murals soon gave way...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 26, 2003 | Opinion
The Bible, Greg Wright points out, is much shorter than J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion combined. Yet, for some people—even Christians—the Bible has taken a backseat to Tolkien’s work as the vessel of Truth....
by Mary Blye Howe | Sep 26, 2003 | Opinion
I’ve always loved New Year’s: the celebrations, ushering in the year with a kiss, and making resolutions or setting goals. Even at a time in life when most of my friends began preferring to stay home with their kids (or by themselves), I still wanted to go...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 25, 2003 | Opinion
The end of the year is nearing—and so is the release of the final, filmed installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mammoth The Lord of the Rings. “The Fellowship of the Ring” was released in December 2001, “The Two Towers” hit theaters in December...
by Robert Parham | Sep 25, 2003 | Opinion
Blaming the news media is the reflexive weapon of the advocates of any cause when things go badly. Writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Congressman Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) suggested that the news media “were somehow complicit” in the death of a U.S....
by James L. Evans | Sep 25, 2003 | Opinion
Recently hundreds of Christians gathered on the steps of the state judicial building in Montgomery, Ala., to offer support to Judge Roy Moore and his 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments. They were also there to protest a federal court order that had the...
