by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 23, 2019 | Opinion
One of my guilty pleasures is satellite radio, and in this holy season it ensures that I do not have to listen to “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and “The Christmas Song” ad nauseum. I can actually listen to some sacred music, which I did on a...
by Gary Furr | Dec 23, 2019 | Opinion
“Christmas TIme’s a-Comin’” is the name of a bluegrass Christmas song. When I was playing a lot more often than these days on the bluegrass and banquet circuit, I was always struggling to come up with bona fide mountain and bluegrass Christmas tunes. Generally, we...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 23, 2019 | Opinion
A meaningful moment happened at lunch recently. They often do in elementary school cafeterias. We elementary school teachers eat lunch with our students. As we sit and eat our meat and three vegetables with them, we become listeners instead of talkers, we become...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 21, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce God came to live among us. Jesus is God’s fullest self-revelation. His life — filled with words, deeds, lessons and sacrifice — was far more than filler or a mere segue from birth to death. It’s tempting to focus almost exclusively on the...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 20, 2019 | Opinion
Christmas is the season for special deliveries. For the last two years, after moving my office from church to home, I watched Christmas unfold through my window facing the street. All through December, I surveyed postal and parcel workers leaping from their trucks,...
by Joe LaGuardia | Dec 20, 2019 | Opinion
They say that, in writing, honesty is the best policy. Stephen King advises in “On Writing” that writing is best when it tells the truth. In “Right to Write,” Julia Cameron has an entire chapter on honesty and its merits in writing. Creative writing coaches will tell...
