by Karen Zurheide | Jan 18, 2002 | Opinion
We’ve heard a lot about heroes since Sept. 11. Much discussion focused on New York City’s brave firefighters and police officers, those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center and those who worked on search-and-rescue crews after the buildings...
by Ron Wilson | Jan 18, 2002 | Opinion
An old, established, downtown church finds its membership dwindling, but meets various sources of resistance to change from within its existing membership. A suburban congregation experiences an influx of twenty- and thirty-something year-old couples with children...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 17, 2002 | Opinion
“A Beautiful Mind” isn’t exactly what the trailer leads one to believe it is. It’s better. Much better. It’s better. Much better. Yes, it’s about John Forbes Nash Jr., the mathematical genius. Yes, it’s about his quest to find...
by Gary Farley | Jan 17, 2002 | Opinion
Following World War II, Pickens County, Ala., like many other counties in the rural South, “chased smoke stacks” with good success. A major electronics company built a plant near Reform and at its peak employed 800 persons. Four textile plants also moved...
by Eddie Hammett | Jan 17, 2002 | Opinion
With the dawning of a new year we are all learning to live with many changes and with courage and faith in the face of the ‘new normal’ caused by terrorist attacks on our country. While many lives and families faced great loss and challenge, the spirit of...
by Gary Leazer | Jan 17, 2002 | Opinion
The Shahada, or confession of faith, states that “I bear witness that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” A devout Muslim will always repeat the Shahada upon rising and at bedtime. It is whispered into the ear of a newborn...
