by Ray Furr | Jul 26, 2002 | Opinion
Cheryl Certain taught her children at home for six years. She found homeschooling rewarding—and grueling. Nobody knows for sure how many children are homeschooled, but in 2001 the National Center for Education Statistics estimated between 709,000 and nearly 1 million...
by Gary Farley | Jul 26, 2002 | Opinion
I recently returned from nearly a month in Australia. I visited rural churches and communities across New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, speaking at conferences for pastors and church leaders in each state. I saw beautiful farm, ranch and timber lands, staying in...
by Charles T. Jones | Jul 26, 2002 | Opinion
ELKHART, Ind. — When Mike Hostetler continues his work for Mennonite Mission Network at Nazareth Village in the Holy Land later this year, he knows he will be among friends again. This in a place where friendships must weather a maelstrom of suspicion and...
by Dwight A. Moody | Jul 25, 2002 | Opinion
For more than four years I have been preparing commentaries on religion in American life: first for the radio, now for the newspapers. This week, reaction to these columns went off the charts. First, I discovered that I had made the 2001 annual report of the Catholic...
by Roger Thomas | Jul 25, 2002 | Opinion
A tradition seems to have developed in the summer movie season: The big films are released in May or June, and July is for the “second string.” Last year, no one in Hollywood thought “Jurassic Park 3” or even the remake of “Planet of the...
by John Finley | Jul 24, 2002 | Opinion
For the average Southern Baptist living in the election year of 1968, the world seemed to be crumbling. The civil rights movement had resulted in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis that spring, and tensions were high. Kentucky state paper editor...
