by Paul Montacute | Jan 21, 2003 | Opinion
The war will be telegenic, so the eyes of the world will sit and watch videogame-like pictures of destruction. Claims and counterclaims will be broadcast 24 hours a day. Meanwhile, many of the already needy in our global village will be ignored. I despair that Tony...
by Gary Leazer | Jan 21, 2003 | Opinion
The origin of the Chinese New Year is centuries old and lost in a haze of legend and myth. All legends agree that the word “Nian,” a Chinese term meaning “year,” was the name of a cruel monster that preyed on and swallowed people the night...
by Dwight A. Moody | Jan 20, 2003 | Opinion
We thus ended the day not staring at some electronic box dramatizing stories fabricated for our entertainment, but gathered as families have done for millennia and more, telling the stories that really matter, of the moments and movements that have made us who we are,...
by Jeffrey D. Vickery | Jan 20, 2003 | Opinion
We left chastened by one man’s honesty. And one among us left deserving of more credit than he will receive from us. But I have a feeling his reward comes from Someone else. How refreshing it was, then, to be sitting in a meeting of pastors and have one speak...
by Robert Parham | Jan 17, 2003 | Opinion
Instead of sleeping through this period of change, we need, as King said, “new mental responses.” New situations demand new attitudes, new ways, new resources. When Van Winkle left for his trip to the mountain, King said, he saw a picture of King George....
by Jeff Woods | Jan 17, 2003 | Opinion
One of the reasons that rituals are so important is because they mark seasons of change. We remember change by recalling the ritual. Someone once said, “We give ourselves permission to change only through the form of ritual.” With that in mind, should we...
