by Mark Tidsworth | Jan 12, 2017 | Opinion
Have you heard people breathing a sigh of relief that 2016 is over? What a crazy year with so many bizarre experiences. Perhaps the most disturbing development was watching the forces, rhetoric and actions of hate escalate. Terrorist acts, those engaging in the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 11, 2017 | Opinion
I learned about Martin Luther King Jr. early in life, but I cannot recall attending an MLK Jr. Day church service until I was 25. Jan. 16 arrived roughly seven months after I moved to Moultrie – a rural town in South Georgia – to serve at Trinity Baptist...
by Michael Parnell | Jan 11, 2017 | Opinion
There was a time when Hollywood churned out multiple versions of the same story. Boy meets girl. Girl and boy hate each other. Boy and girl have stars in their eyes for fame and fortune. Boy and girl find each other again and love blooms. All of this taking place with...
by Sarah Stone | Jan 11, 2017 | Opinion
We’re the smartphone, social media generation. We were raised to share our opinions, to speak our minds. By the age of 21, millions of us had significant education debt. We were taught we could be anything, anyone, we wanted to be. But that’s a lot of...
by Robert Parham | Jan 11, 2017 | Opinion
National Migration Week is sandwiched between Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Jan. 11 and Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 16. Each has a different focus. All share a common moral concern – caring for the stranger and the weak, pursuing social justice,...
by Candice Lee | Jan 10, 2017 | Opinion
Slavery is an ugly part of our history. It is something that should have ended long ago. But for the millions of people held captive in our world today, slavery is alive and thriving. Human trafficking generates billions of dollars of profit every year. That’s a...
