by Marv Knox | Dec 5, 2002 | Opinion
“Daddy, you’re just like a boy,” Molly declared. This was not exactly a compliment. But since “a boy” is what I’ve been all my life, I took no offense. But my offense was heinous: I ate a piece of cookie I’d dropped on the...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 4, 2002 | Opinion
A great deal of money is trading hands even as the box moves from one person to another, from one institution to another. Financial gain is influencing treatment of the box and undermining the credibility of its handlers. I saw it in Toronto, in a special exhibit at...
by Michael Helms | Dec 3, 2002 | Opinion
In the South, it is customary for motorists to pull off to the side of the road and stop after meeting a funeral procession. This is a custom worth keeping. I admit, there have been times as a motorist that I have breathed a big sigh and mumbled a word or two of...
by Barry Howard | Dec 2, 2002 | Opinion
Your Advent journey goes beyond what happens at your church services. Advent is a season for preparing your heart, mind and soul for the coming of Christ. Such preparation involves participation in worship, designating time for quiet meditation and reading daily...
by Doug Weaver | Dec 2, 2002 | Opinion
Williams told us forcefully that the Prince of Peace should not be associated with our lust for forced conformity and reliance upon the civil government. The church has been given sufficient means to discipline itself, and to persuade others of the truth of the...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Nov 27, 2002 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article was revised on Nov. 22, 2019, to remove a reference to a 1623 Thanksgiving sermon discovered to be inaccurate by the author upon further research. I once heard a non-Baptist governor’s wife at a Baptist college Thanksgiving...
