by Kathryn Kraft | Jul 3, 2017 | Opinion
When she stood up from the little stool on which she had been perched throughout our interview, I saw that she was indeed pregnant. I guessed about seven months. But, I thought, she already had seven children, a sunken eye and a lost home. I wondered if she wanted...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
Talk to anybody about your participation in an archaeological dig, and at least one question is inevitable: “What did you find?” Or, its variation: “Did you find anything good?” No one would dig if they didn’t hope to find something, but...
by Ircel Harrison | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
The good news first: “Cars 3,” the third Pixar movie about racing cars, is much more like the original film (2006) than the 2011 sequel that jumped the track. The new animated film has the heart, fun and action of the original film while allowing the hero...
by Olu Q. Menjay | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
I traveled in early September 2016 to East Africa for a Christian mission conference. The Kenya Airway flight from Liberia took me through Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Accra, Ghana, to my final destination, Nairobi, Kenya. Upon our arrival to Freetown, several...
by Michael Parnell | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
What do we do about the stranger in our midst? Ralph Neighbor wrote that three types of people inhabit our lives. There are people people, who are our family and close friends. Then there are service people, who get our laundry at the cleaners or our coffee at...
by Molly T. Marshall | Jun 29, 2017 | Opinion
Many are anxious as a rending of the health care safety net is transpiring. Decisions are underway that threaten to exclude a growing sector of the population from basic access. The tension between federal and state responsibilities will only grow, and each will...
