by Gary Farley | Sep 2, 2003 | Opinion
The Sacred Harp Singing held recently at the Elmore-Center United Methodist Church, reputed to be the 159th annual edition, may be the oldest in America. Participating in it was almost like taking a trip in time back to the worship practices of the rural South of...
by Paul Montacute | Sep 2, 2003 | Opinion
I’m writing this from a hospital waiting room, while my wife is undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery. The doctor has promised that we’ll be able to take home photos of the surgery from inside the shoulder. All the staff are smartly dressed in crisp and...
by Ron Sisk | Aug 29, 2003 | Opinion
Plagiarism. There goes that word again. Plagiarism is the persistent plague of preaching, and the summer of 2003 is no exception. A prominent Disciples of Christ minister in Washington, D.C., has just gone through the gut-wrenching discovery and admission of using...
by Jan Turrentine | Aug 29, 2003 | Opinion
The outgoing president of a state university in the South was in the news of late. According to newspapers, his annual salary was $365,000, the second-highest in the nation for a university president. That’s more than twice the compensation for the mayor of the...
by Chris Sanders | Aug 28, 2003 | Opinion
For too long, church folk have limited the gospel in the workplace to personal evangelism, chaplaincy and counseling. These aren’t just good; they are great. But what about ethics? Our faith should inform our daily lives. For too long, we have treated Labor Day...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 28, 2003 | Opinion
The United States has given the world the gift of noble concepts like democracy, and it has the potential to be a light to a hurting world. While appreciating what this country offers the rest of humanity, I refuse to worship this culture as though it were a god,...
